What is the colors() function in R?

Overview

The colors() function in R is used to return all the built-in color names in R.

Syntax

Note: The colors() function can also be interchanged with the colours() function.

Parameters

The colors() function takes a single parameter value, distinct, which takes a Boolean value of either TRUE or FALSE.

Return value

The colors() function returns a character vector that contains all the built-in color names in R.

Code examples

Code explanation

The distinct parameter indicates whether the colors returned are distinct or not, for example, "snow" and "snow1" are effectively the same point in the $(0:255)^3$ RGB space. Hence, by default, the value is FALSE.