colors {grDevices} | R Documentation

## Color Names

### Description

Returns the built-in color names which R knows about.

### Usage

    colors()
    colours()

### Details

These color names can be used with a `col=` specification in graphics functions.

An even wider variety of colors can be created with primitives `rgb` and `hsv` or the derived `rainbow`, `heat.colors`, etc.

### Value

A character vector containing all the built-in color names.

### See Also

`palette` for setting the “palette” of colors for `par(col=`<num>`)`; `rgb`, `hsv`, `gray`; `rainbow` for a nice example; and `heat.colors`, `topo.colors` for images.

`col2rgb` for translating to RGB numbers and extended examples.

### Examples

    cl <- colors()
    length(cl); cl[1:20]

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