Generate Discrete Colours — PaletteDiscrete • phenoscapR

Generates n evenly spaced colours from the current or specified palette. Useful for colouring phenotypes, clusters, or samples.

Usage

PaletteDiscrete(n, palette = NULL)

Arguments

n: Integer. Number of distinct colours needed.
palette: Character or character vector. Palette specification (see SetPalette). If NULL, uses the global palette.

Value

A character vector of n hex colours.

Examples

cols <- PaletteDiscrete(5)
barplot(rep(1, 5), col = cols)


cols <- PaletteDiscrete(8, palette = c("#1b9e77", "#ffffff", "#d95f02"))
barplot(rep(1, 8), col = cols)