I have noticed that colors in my base R plots have changed. Please look at the e.g. the red color on my plot "before" (previous R version) and "now" (current R version, 4.0.0).
Is there anything I can do to reset any possible settings (e.g., par() etc.) to revert colors to normal?
The difference in colors is due to that the default color palette changed in R 4.0.0. You can revert to the old colors by using palette("R3").
From the release news:
The
palette()function has a new default set of colours (which are less saturated and have better accessibility properties). There are also some new built-in palettes, which are listed by the newpalette.pals()function. These include the old default palette under the name"R3".
See also the blog post A New palette() for R
Default color palette in R 4.0.0:
palette()
# [1] "black" "#DF536B" "#61D04F" "#2297E6" "#28E2E5" "#CD0BBC" "#F5C710" "gray62"
Revert to old default palette, "R3":
palette("R3")
palette()
# [1] "black" "red" "green3" "blue" "cyan" "magenta" "yellow" "gray"
Change to current default again:
palette("default")
# or
palette("R4")
palette()
# [1] "black" "#DF536B" "#61D04F" "#2297E6" "#28E2E5" "#CD0BBC" "#F5C710" "gray62"
