Gradient of n colors ranging from color 1 and color 2

Question

I often work with ggplot2 that makes gradients nice  click here for an example    I have a need to work in base and I think scales can be used there to create color gradients as well but I m severely off the mark on how   The basic goal is generate a palette of n colors that ranges from x color to y color   The solution needs to work in base though   This was a starting point but there s no place to input an n      scale colour gradientn colours c  red    blue      I am well aware of   brewer pal 8   Spectral      from RColorBrewer   I m looking more for the approach similar to how ggplot2 handles gradients that says I have these two colors and I want 15 colors along the way   How can I do that

User · Answer

The above answer is useful but in graphs, it is difficult to distinguish between darker gradients of black. One alternative I found is to use gradients of gray colors as follows

palette(gray.colors(10, 0.9, 0.4))
plot(rep(1,10),col=1:10,pch=19,cex=3))

More info on gray scale here.

Added

When I used the code above for different colours like blue and black, the gradients were not that clear. heat.colors() seems more useful.

This document has more detailed information and options. pdf

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Try the following   color gradient  lt - function x  colors c  red   yellow   green    colsteps 100      return  colorRampPalette colors   colsteps    findInterval x  seq min x  max x   length out colsteps         x  lt - c  1 100  2   100 1  2  plot x col color gradient x   pch 19 cex 2

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colorRampPalette could be your friend here   colfunc  lt - colorRampPalette c  black    white    colfunc 10     1    000000    1C1C1C    383838    555555    717171    8D8D8D    AAAAAA     8    C6C6C6    E2E2E2    FFFFFF    And just to show it works   plot rep 1 10  col colfunc 10  pch 19 cex 3

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Just to expand on the previous answer colorRampPalettecan handle more than two colors   So for a more expanded  heat map  type look you can      colfunc lt -colorRampPalette c  red   yellow   springgreen   royalblue    plot rep 1 50  col  colfunc 50    pch 19 cex 2      The resulting image

[r] Gradient of n colors ranging from color 1 and color 2

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