{"id":8197,"date":"2018-11-18T01:12:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T23:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/?p=8197"},"modified":"2019-12-25T11:18:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-25T09:18:00","slug":"awesome-list-of-657-r-color-names","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/blog\/awesome-list-of-657-r-color-names\/","title":{"rendered":"Awesome List Of 657 R Color Names"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"rdoc\">\n<p>This article shows the list of <strong>R color names<\/strong>. There are 657 built-in color names available in R. The function <code>colors()<\/code> returns the color names, which R knows about.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"r\"><code># Show the first 20 colors\r\nr_color &lt;- colors()\r\nhead(r_color, 20)<\/code><\/pre>\n<pre><code>##  [1] \"white\"         \"aliceblue\"     \"antiquewhite\"  \"antiquewhite1\"\r\n##  [5] \"antiquewhite2\" \"antiquewhite3\" \"antiquewhite4\" \"aquamarine\"   \r\n##  [9] \"aquamarine1\"   \"aquamarine2\"   \"aquamarine3\"   \"aquamarine4\"  \r\n## [13] \"azure\"         \"azure1\"        \"azure2\"        \"azure3\"       \r\n## [17] \"azure4\"        \"beige\"         \"bisque\"        \"bisque1\"<\/code><\/pre>\n<p>These color names can be used in graphics functions using the option <code>col =<\/code> (in R base plots) or <code>color =<\/code> in ggplot2 functions.<\/p>\n<div id=\"list-of-colors-in-r\" class=\"section level2\">\n<h2>List of colors in R<\/h2>\n<p>The following images illustrate the different colors:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/dn-tutorials\/ggplot2\/images\/0100-r-color-names-plot-1.png\" alt=\"R Color Names 1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/dn-tutorials\/ggplot2\/images\/0100-r-color-names-plot-2.png\" alt=\"R Color Names 2\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/dn-tutorials\/ggplot2\/images\/0100-r-color-names-plot-3.png\" alt=\"R Color Names 3\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/dn-tutorials\/ggplot2\/images\/0100-r-color-names-plot-4.png\" alt=\"R Color Names 4\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/dn-tutorials\/ggplot2\/images\/0100-r-color-names-plot-5.png\" alt=\"R Color Names 5\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/dn-tutorials\/ggplot2\/images\/0100-r-color-names-plot-6.png\" alt=\"R Color Names 6\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.datanovia.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/dn-tutorials\/ggplot2\/images\/0100-r-color-names-plot-7.png\" alt=\"R Color Names 7\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"conclusion\" class=\"section level2\">\n<h2>Conclusion<\/h2>\n<p>This article presents the list of R color names.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--end rdoc--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article shows the list of R color names. 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