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build your palette from a picture โˆš

paletteR

PaletteR is an R package that is able to draw an optimised palette from a custom image. The palette is obtained by applying statistical learning to the image provided and optimising the distribution of colours.

More on the math behind the package can be found at:

http://www.andreacirillo.com/2018/05/08/how-to-use-paletter-to-automagically-build-palettes-from-pictures/

Rdoc

example

Tondo Doni, Michelangelo Buonarroti, 1503-1504

Installation

The package is currently only on Github. You can install it as follows:

devtools::install_github("AndreaCirilloAC/paletter")

usage

image_path <- "path_to_your_image"
colours_vector <- create_palette(image_path = image_path,
number_of_colors =32,
type_of_variable = โ€œcategorical")

ggplot(data = mtcars, aes(x = rownames(mtcars),y = hp,color = rownames(mtcars),
                          fill = rownames(mtcars))) +
  geom_bar(stat = 'identity') +
  scale_color_manual(values = colours_vector) +
  scale_fill_manual(values=colours_vector)+
  theme_minimal() +
  guides(size = FALSE) +
  theme(legend.position = "bottom") +
  labs(title = "disp vs hp")+
  coord_flip()