If you want high-quality, scientifically-researched color schemes for your R plots, check out the RColorBrewer package. If you want your plots to be colored the same way as packs of Skittles (or M&Ms), then this package (RSkittleBrewer) is the way to go.
with devtools
:
devtools::install_github('alyssafrazee/RSkittleBrewer')
There are only three functions in this package.
Call RSkittleBrewer
on a flavor to get a vector of R color names that correspond to that Skittle flavor.
original_colors = RSkittleBrewer('original')
tropical_colors = RSkittleBrewer('tropical')
wildberry_colors = RSkittleBrewer('wildberry')
smarties_colors = RSkittleBrewer('smarties')
mm_colors = RSkittleBrewer('M&M')
In this project, M&M is a Skittle flavor. It's cool. The British also wanted Smarties (thanks Andy)!
plotSkittles()
and plotSmarties()
make super awesome illustrations of the color schemes.
Here's a blog post I wrote for you.
- Karl, for helping make this into a legitimate package
- Jeff and Rafa, for inspiration