# R: Set or Retrieve 'car' Package Color Palette

carPalette {car} | R Documentation

## Set or Retrieve car Package Color Palette

### Description

This function is used to set or retrieve colors to be used in car package graphics functions.

### Usage

    carPalette(palette)

### Arguments

`palette` | if missing, returns the colors that will be used in car graphics; if present, the colors to be used in graphics will be set.

### Details

This function sets or returns the value of `options(carPalette=pallete)` that will be use in car graphics functions to determine colors. The default is `c("black", "blue", "magenta", "cyan", "orange", "gray", "green3", "red"))`, which is nearly a permutation of the colors returned by the standard `palette` function that minimizes the use of red and green in the same graph, and that substitutes orange for the often hard to see yellow.

### Value

Invisibly returns the previous value of the car palette.

### Author(s)

Sanford Weisberg and John Fox

### References

Fox, J. and Weisberg, S. (2019) An R Companion to Applied Regression, Third Edition, Sage.

### See Also

`palette`, `colors`

### Examples

    # Standard color palette
    palette()
    # car standard color palette
    carPalette()
    # set colors to all black
    carPalette(rep("black", 8))
    # Use a custom color palette with 12 distinct colors
    carPalette(sample(colors(distinct=TRUE), 12))
    # restore default
    carPalette("default")

[Package car version 3.0-2 Index]