11.27 Colour Names

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R provides a collection of predefined named colours as returned by grDevices::colours():

length(colours())

## [1] 657

colours() %>% sample(12)

##  [1] "deeppink2"     "gray33"        "grey51"        "gray86"       
##  [5] "sienna3"       "lawngreen"     "gray20"        "darkorange3"  
##  [9] "mediumorchid1" "lightsalmon2"  "orange2"       "gray11"

Colours can be selected using epitools::colors.plot() with locator=``TRUE to display a plot containing all of the named colours. Multiple clicks with the left mouse button on colours (we hear a beep for each click) will return the colour names.

as.character(colors.plot(locator=TRUE)$color.names)

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