Wednesday 1 April 2009

RColorBrewer for S+

Given the work to make S+ colors compatible with R in S+ 8, it was trivial to port RColorBrewer to S+. I've submitted this to CSAN using the procedure described in the S+ 8 Guide to Packages. It'll be interesting to see what the lag time is to get this up on CRAN.

The motivation for the port is I'm doing more with the-code-formerly-known-as-ArrayAnalyzer lately, and the Bioconductor Case Studies book likes to use RColorBrewer in examples.

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