col2alpha function

get R color alpha value

Return the alpha transparency per R color

col2alpha(x, maxValue = 1, ...)

Arguments

• x: character R compatible color, either a color name, hex value, or a mixture of the two. Any value compatible with grDevices::col2rgb().
• maxValue: numeric maximum value to return, useful when the downstream alpha range should be 255. By default maxValue=1 is returned.
• ...: Additional arguments are ignored.

Returns

numeric vector of alpha values

Examples

col2alpha(c("red", "#99004499", "beige", "transparent", "#FFFFFF00"))

See Also

Other jam color functions: alpha2col(), applyCLrange(), col2hcl(), col2hsl(), col2hsv(), color2gradient(), fixYellow(), fixYellowHue(), getColorRamp(), hcl2col(), hsl2col(), hsv2col(), isColor(), kable_coloring(), makeColorDarker(), rainbow2(), rgb2col(), setCLranges(), setTextContrastColor(), showColors(), unalpha(), warpRamp()