soilpalettes

This package contains color palettes for RStudio, inspired by soil profiles. Palettes are colorblind-friendly and were created using Chroma.js and Coolors.

Source images and color hex values can be found in the images.md file in the root directory.

install package

# install.packages("devtools") 
devtools::install_github("kaizadp/soilpalettes")

Palettes

soil orders, suborders, and great groups

soil series

others

Examples

library(ggplot2)

ggplot(data=iris, aes(x=Sepal.Width, fill = Species))+
  geom_histogram(binwidth=0.2, color="black") + 
  xlab("Sepal Width") +  ylab("Frequency") + 
  ggtitle("Histogram of Sepal Width") + theme_bw()+
  
  scale_fill_manual(values = soil_palette("rendoll",3))

ggplot(data=iris, aes(x=Sepal.Width, fill=Species)) + 
  geom_density(stat="density", alpha=(0.6)) +
  xlab("Sepal Width") +  ylab("Density") + 
  ggtitle("Histogram & Density Curve of Sepal Width") + theme_bw()+
  
  scale_fill_manual(values = soil_palette("paleustalf",3))

library(palmerpenguins)

ggplot(penguins, aes(x = bill_length_mm, y = bill_depth_mm, color = species))+
  geom_point()+ 
  labs(x = "Bill length (mm)", y = "Bill depth (mm)",
       title = "Scatterplot of penguin bill dimensions",
       subtitle = "data = Palmer Penguins")+
  theme_bw()+
  
  scale_color_manual(values = soil_palette("paleustalf", 3))

ggplot(penguins, aes(y = body_mass_g, x = species, fill = species))+
  geom_violin(alpha = 0.5)+ 
  geom_dotplot(binaxis = "y", color = "black", fill="black", dotsize=0.3, stackdir = "center", binpositions="all")+
  labs(y = "Body mass (g)", x = "",
       title = "Violin plot of penguin body mass",
       subtitle = "data = Palmer Penguins")+
  theme_bw()+
  
  scale_fill_manual(values = soil_palette("podzol", 3))

ggplot(penguins, aes(x = bill_length_mm, y = bill_depth_mm, color = bill_length_mm))+
  geom_point()+ 
  labs(x = "Bill length (mm)", y = "Bill depth (mm)",
       title = "Scatterplot of penguin bill dimensions",
       subtitle = "data = Palmer Penguins")+
  theme_bw()+
  
  scale_color_gradientn(colors = rev(soil_palette("redox2",5)))

Acknowledgments and Contributions

Code structure was modelled after the PNWColors and wesanderson packages.
Contribute soil palettes in the issues.