A quick and dirty way to show colours in a plot.

show_col(colours, labels = TRUE, borders = NULL, cex_label = 1, ncol = NULL)

Arguments

colours

A character vector of colours

labels

Label each colour with its hex name?

borders

Border colour for each tile. Default uses par("fg"). Use border = NA to omit borders.

cex_label

Size of printed labels, as multiplier of default size.

ncol

Number of columns. If not supplied, tries to be as square as possible.

Examples

show_col(hue_pal()(9))
show_col(hue_pal()(9), borders = NA)
show_col(viridis_pal()(16))
show_col(viridis_pal()(16), labels = FALSE)