Generate diverging colors in HCL colour space.

A function to generate colors in Hue-Chroma-Luminance colour scheme for mapping phyloregions.

hexcols(x)

Arguments

x

An object of class metaMDS

Value

A range of discrete colors differentiating between phyloregions in terms of their shared relationships.

Author

Barnabas H. Daru darunabas@gmail.com

Examples

library(vegan)
#> Loading required package: permute
#> Loading required package: lattice
#> This is vegan 2.6-4
data(dune)
c1 <- metaMDS(dune, trace = 0)
hexcols(c1)
#> Warning: convex combination of colors in polar coordinates (polarLUV) may not be appropriate
#> Warning: convex combination of colors in polar coordinates (polarLUV) may not be appropriate
#>         1         2         3         4         5         6         7         8 
#> "#DB9D86" "#CEA08A" "#CB9FA2" "#CF9EA2" "#C5A67A" "#BBA97B" "#C2A77F" "#BBA3B2" 
#>         9        10        11        12        13        14        15        16 
#> "#C99FAC" "#BEA87F" "#AAAD86" "#C3A0BC" "#CD9CBC" "#87AFD6" "#9AAAD6" "#B2A2E1" 
#>        17        18        19        20 
#> "#94B66D" "#9EB090" "#7CB697" "#96AADF" 
plot(c1$points, pch = 21, cex = 7, bg = hexcols(c1), las = 1)
#> Warning: convex combination of colors in polar coordinates (polarLUV) may not be appropriate
#> Warning: convex combination of colors in polar coordinates (polarLUV) may not be appropriate