R: Read RGB Color Descriptions

readRGB {colorspace} | R Documentation

## Read RGB Color Descriptions

### Description

This function reads a set of RGB color descriptions (of the form written by `gcolorsel`) from a file and creates a color object containing the corresponding colors.

### Usage

    readRGB(file, class = "RGB")

### Arguments

`file` | The file containing the color descriptions.
`class` | The kind of color object to be returned.

### Details

The file is assumed to contain RGB color descriptions consisting of three integer values in the range from 0 to 255 followed by a color name.

### Value

An color object of the specified class containing the color descriptions.

### Author(s)

Ross Ihaka

### See Also

`writehex`, `readhex`, `hex2RGB`, `RGB`, `HSV`, `XYZ`, `LAB`, `polarLAB`, `LUV`, `polarLUV`.

### Examples

    ## Not run:
    rgb <- readRGB("pastel.rgb")
    hsv <- readRGB("pastel.rgb", "HSV")

    ## End(Not run)

[Package colorspace version 2.0-1 Index]