Read RGB Color Descriptions

This function reads a set of RGB color descriptions (of the form written by gcolorsel) from a file and creates a color object containing the corresponding colors.

readRGB(file, class = "RGB")

Arguments

file

The file containing the color descriptions.

class

The kind of color object to be returned.

Value

An color object of the specified class containing the color descriptions.

Details

The file is assumed to contain RGB color descriptions consisting of three integer values in the range from 0 to 255 followed by a color name.

See also

writehex, readhex, hex2RGB, RGB, HSV, XYZ, LAB, polarLAB, LUV, polarLUV.

Author

Ross Ihaka

Examples

if (FALSE) {
rgb <- readRGB("pastel.rgb")
hsv <- readRGB("pastel.rgb", "HSV")
}