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# palettehelper <img src="man/figures/logo.png" align="right" width=250 />

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The goal of `palettehelper` is to help you build and manage color palettes in R for data viz. I mostly made it for myself! And as a test package for customizing content in the Fisheries Integrated Toolbox documentation.

## Installation

You can install the development version of `palettehelper` from [GitHub](https://github.com/) with:

``` r
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("MargaretSiple-NOAA/palettehelper")
```

## Example

Expand the very beautiful (but short) color palettes from your favorite palette package.

```{r example}
library(RColorBrewer)
library(palettehelper)


pal <- RColorBrewer::brewer.pal(n = 6,name = "PuBuGn")
longer_pal <- palettehelper::lengthen_pal(shortpal = pal, newlength = 20)
print(longer_pal)

par(mfrow=c(1,2))
scales::show_col(pal)
scales::show_col(longer_pal)
```

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