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Interpolate an AAGI Colour Palette to Expand the Colour Values

Source: R/interpolate_aagi_colours.R
interpolate_aagi_colours.Rd

Takes a AAGI colour palette and generates more colours from it, so that there are enough to make your chart. The interpolation method is set to spline (the default is linear) in an attempt to reduce the number of vomit colours that get produced when generating many colours.

Usage

interpolate_aagi_colours(
  colours = c("AAGI Orange", "AAGI Yellow", "AAGI Bright Green", "AAGI Green",
    "AAGI Teal", "AAGI Blue"),
  direction = 1,
  ...
)

Arguments

colours

Character; given names of AAGI colours to use in the interpolation. Defaults to "AAGI Orange", "AAGI Yellow", "AAGI Bright Green", "AAGI Teal", "AAGI Blue" in that order.

direction

Integer Sets the order of colours in the scale. If 1, the default order is used. If -1, the order of colours is reversed.

...

Additional arguments to pass to grDevices::colorRampPalette(), see details here grDevices::colorRamp().

Value

A function that takes a single value and makes that many colours.

See also

aagi_palettes

Examples

library(ggplot2)

x <- interpolate_aagi_colours()
# round the weights to clean up the legend, this is just an e.g. after all...
wt_vals <- x(length(unique(round(mtcars$wt, 1))))

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = mpg, y = hp, colour = as.factor(round(wt, 1)))) +
  geom_point() +
  scale_colour_manual("Weight", values = wt_vals)