R Color Brewer palettes

Here are few examples of the many R Color Brewer palettes available and availables themes.

Some examples :

# Libraries
library(ggplot2)

# 1 - Greys palette
ggplot(df, aes(x=cond, y=yval, fill=cond)) + 
  geom_bar(stat="identity") +
  scale_fill_brewer(palette="Greys") +
  theme(legend.position="none")

# 2 - PRGn palette
ggplot(df, aes(x=cond, y=yval, fill=cond)) + 
  geom_bar(stat="identity") +
  scale_fill_brewer(palette="PRGn") +
  theme(legend.position="none")

# 3 - Set1 palette
ggplot(df, aes(x=cond, y=yval, fill=cond)) + 
  geom_bar(stat="identity") +
  scale_fill_brewer(palette="Set1") +
  theme(legend.position="none")

# 4 - Spectral palette
ggplot(df, aes(x=cond, y=yval, fill=cond)) + 
  geom_bar(stat="identity") +
  scale_fill_brewer(palette="Spectral") +
  theme(legend.position="none")

Color blind friendly palettes

Here are two examples with color blind friendly palettes.

# 1 - The palette with grey:
cbPalette <- c("#999999", "#E69F00", "#56B4E9", "#009E73", "#F0E442", "#0072B2", "#D55E00", "#CC79A7")

ggplot(df, aes(x=cond, y=yval, fill=cond)) + 
  geom_bar(stat="identity") +
  scale_fill_manual(values=cbPalette) +
  theme(legend.position="none")

# 2 - The palette with black:
cbbPalette <- c("#000000", "#E69F00", "#56B4E9", "#009E73", "#F0E442", "#0072B2", "#D55E00", "#CC79A7")

ggplot(df, aes(x=cond, y=yval, fill=cond)) + 
  geom_bar(stat="identity") +
  scale_fill_manual(values=cbbPalette) +
  theme(legend.position="none")

Color palettes

R Color Brewer palettes

Color blind friendly palettes

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