how to color a qualitative gradient with R (using independent categories / multiple dimensions)

Question

sorry if i\'m missing something fundamental about how colorRampPalette and brewer.pal work, but how can you create a qualitative color gradient based o

Answer 1

i believe that something like this is the solution, although i can't believe there isn't a smarter way to do it.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/26573256/1759499