map2color {GeneTonic} | R Documentation

## Maps numeric values to color values

### Description

Maps numeric continuous values to values in a color palette

### Usage

    map2color(x, pal, limits = NULL)

### Arguments

`x` | A character vector of numeric values (e.g. log2FoldChange values) to be converted to a vector of colors
`pal` | A vector of characters specifying the definition of colors for the palette, e.g. obtained via `brewer.pal`
`limits` | A vector containing the limits of the values to be mapped. If not specified, defaults to the range of values in the `x` vector.

### Value

A vector of colors, each corresponding to an element in the original vector

### Examples

    a <- 1:9
    pal <- RColorBrewer::brewer.pal(9,"Set1")
    map2color(a, pal)
    plot(a, col = map2color(a, pal), pch = 20, cex = 4)

    b <- 1:50
    pal2 <- grDevices::colorRampPalette(
      RColorBrewer::brewer.pal(name = "RdYlBu", 11))(50)
    plot(b, col = map2color(b, pal2), pch = 20, cex = 3)

[Package GeneTonic version 1.2.0 Index]