Create a Range of Colors between the Specified Colors in R Programming colorRampPalette() Function (original) (raw)

Last Updated : 15 Jul, 2025

colorRampPalette() function in R Language is used to create a color range between two colors specified as arguments to the function. This function is used to specify the starting and ending color of the range.

**Syntax:**colorRampPalette(c("color1", "color2")) Parameters: color1, color2: starting and ending colors of the range.Returns: color range between specified colors

Example:

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R program to create a color range

Apply colorRampPalette Function

fun_color_range <- colorRampPalette(c("Green", "darkgreen"))
my_colors <- fun_color_range(100)

Plotting a graph

plot(1:100, pch = 20, col = my_colors)

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Output: Example 2:

r `

R program to create a color range

Apply colorRampPalette Function

fun_color_range <- colorRampPalette(c("blue", "orange"))
my_colors <- fun_color_range(100)

Plotting a graph

plot(1:100, pch = 40, col = my_colors)

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Output :