mbannert/rgb2hex.R

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Convert RGB to hex in R

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	rgb2hex <- function(r,g,b) sprintf('#%s',paste(as.hexmode(c(r,g,b)),collapse = ''))

	rgb2hex(255,0,0)
	# returns '#ff0000'

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mbannert commented Mar 9, 2015

Needed it again after months, looked it up, found my own tweet that led me to this git, just to learn @hadley beat on this :)

davidorme commented Mar 7, 2018

And hence a derivative work: a function to turn a color name into hex, including alpha.

col2hex <- function(col, alpha) rgb(t(col2rgb(col)), alpha=alpha, maxColorValue=255)
col2hex('firebrick')
# [1] "#B22222"
col2hex('firebrick', 204)
# [1] "#B22222CC"

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