R: how to change lattice (levelplot) color theme?

Question

The default theme on my installation is something which maps the values to pink and cyan. How to change it for example to a gray scale theme?

Answer 1

You may also want to consider using panel.levelplot.raster, as it reduces the figure size sizably, as I recently found out. Combining this tip with changing trellis settings in general, here are a following examples:

trellis.par.set(regions=list(col=topo.colors(100)))
levelplot(volcano, panel = panel.levelplot.raster)

levelplot(volcano, panel = panel.levelplot.raster,
          par.settings=list(regions=list(col=topo.colors(100))))

The second method is deceptive because the trellis settings are in fact being changed globally. I didn't know about the col.regions argument though - that's pretty nice as it seems to change the color theme locally.