pittpalette

Contains code for R package with R color palettes inspired by the University of Pittsburgh. Code adopted from the lovely inauguration R package by Cianna Bedford-Petersen, available here.

R package installation

Install the pittpalette R package using the following code:

#install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("kimberlywebb/pittpalette", ref="main")
library(pittpalette)

Using the pittpalette package

Use the names function to view the available color palettes.

names(pitt_palettes)
# [1] "primary_contemporary" "primary_legacy"     "primary"           "secondary"           
# [5] "accent_rich"          "accent_vibrant"     "accent"   

Call the palette using the render_pitt_palette function

render_pitt_palette("primary")

View a subset of the accent color scheme

render_pitt_palette("accent", 5)

Use colors from pitt_palettes in your graphs

set.seed(1)
hist(rnorm(n = 100, mean = 0, sd = 1), col = pitt_palettes[["primary_contemporary"]][1])