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\name{ColorBarContinuous}
\alias{ColorBarContinuous}
\title{Draws a Continuous Color Bar}
\usage{
ColorBarContinuous(
  brks = NULL,
  cols = NULL,
  vertical = TRUE,
  subsampleg = NULL,
  bar_limits = NULL,
  var_limits = NULL,
  triangle_ends = NULL,
  col_inf = NULL,
  col_sup = NULL,
  color_fun = ClimPalette(),
  plot = TRUE,
  draw_ticks = TRUE,
  draw_separators = FALSE,
  triangle_ends_scale = 1,
  extra_labels = NULL,
  title = NULL,
  title_scale = 1,
  label_scale = 1,
  tick_scale = 1,
  extra_margin = rep(0, 4),
  label_digits = 4,
  ...
)
}
\arguments{
\item{brks}{Can be provided in two formats:
\itemize{
 \item{A single value with the number of breaks to be generated 
 automatically, between the minimum and maximum specified in 'var_limits' 
 (both inclusive). Hence the parameter 'var_limits' is mandatory if 'brks' 
 is provided with this format. If 'bar_limits' is additionally provided, 
 values only between 'bar_limits' will be generated. The higher the value 
 of 'brks', the smoother the plot will look.}
 \item{A vector with the actual values of the desired breaks. Values will 
 be reordered by force to ascending order. If provided in this format, no 
 other parameters are required to generate/plot the colour bar.}
}
 This parameter is optional if 'var_limits' is specified. If 'brks' not 
 specified but 'cols' is specified, it will take as value length(cols) + 1. 
 If 'cols' is not specified either, 'brks' will take 21 as value.}

\item{cols}{Vector of length(brks) - 1 valid colour identifiers, for each 
interval defined by the breaks. This parameter is optional and will be 
filled in with a vector of length(brks) - 1 colours generated with the 
function provided in 'color_fun' (\code{clim.colors} by default).\cr 'cols' 
can have one additional colour at the beginning and/or at the end with the 
aim to colour field values beyond the range of interest represented in the 
colour bar. If any of these extra colours is provided, parameter 
'triangle_ends' becomes mandatory in order to disambiguate which of the 
ends the colours have been provided for.}

\item{vertical}{TRUE/FALSE for vertical/horizontal colour bar 
(disregarded if plot = FALSE).}

\item{subsampleg}{The first of each subsampleg breaks will be ticked on the 
colorbar. Takes by default an approximation of a value that yields a 
readable tick arrangement (extreme breaks always ticked). If set to 0 or 
lower, no labels are drawn. See the code of the function for details or 
use 'extra_labels' for customized tick arrangements.}

\item{bar_limits}{Vector of two numeric values with the extremes of the 
range of values represented in the colour bar. If 'var_limits' go beyond 
this interval, the drawing of triangle extremes is triggered at the 
corresponding sides, painted in 'col_inf' and 'col_sup'. Either of them 
can be set as NA and will then take as value the corresponding extreme in 
'var_limits' (hence a triangle end won't be triggered for these sides). 
Takes as default the extremes of 'brks' if available, else the same values 
as 'var_limits'.}

\item{var_limits}{Vector of two numeric values with the minimum and maximum 
values of the field to represent. These are used to know whether to draw 
triangle ends at the extremes of the colour bar and what colour to fill 
them in with. If not specified, take the same value as the extremes of 
'brks'. Hence the parameter 'brks' is mandatory if 'var_limits' is not 
specified.}

\item{triangle_ends}{Vector of two logical elements, indicating whether to 
force the drawing of triangle ends at each of the extremes of the colour 
bar. This choice is automatically made from the provided 'brks', 
'bar_limits', 'var_limits', 'col_inf' and 'col_sup', but the behaviour 
can be manually forced to draw or not to draw the triangle ends with this 
parameter. If 'cols' is provided, 'col_inf' and 'col_sup' will take 
priority over 'triangle_ends' when deciding whether to draw the triangle 
ends or not.}

\item{col_inf}{Colour to fill the inferior triangle end with. Useful if 
specifying colours manually with parameter 'cols', to specify the colour 
and to trigger the drawing of the lower extreme triangle, or if 'cols' is 
not specified, to replace the colour automatically generated by ColorBar().}

\item{col_sup}{Colour to fill the superior triangle end with. Useful if 
specifying colours manually with parameter 'cols', to specify the colour 
and to trigger the drawing of the upper extreme triangle, or if 'cols' is 
not specified, to replace the colour automatically generated by ColorBar().}

\item{color_fun}{Function to generate the colours of the color bar. Must 
take an integer and must return as many colours. The returned colour vector 
can have the attribute 'na_color', with a colour to draw NA values. This 
parameter is set by default to ClimPalette().}

\item{plot}{Logical value indicating whether to only compute its breaks and 
colours (FALSE) or to also draw it on the current device (TRUE).}

\item{draw_ticks}{Whether to draw ticks for the labels along the colour bar 
(TRUE) or not (FALSE). TRUE by default. Disregarded if 'plot = FALSE'.}

\item{draw_separators}{Whether to draw black lines in the borders of each of 
the colour rectancles of the colour bar (TRUE) or not (FALSE). FALSE by 
default. Disregarded if 'plot = FALSE'.}

\item{triangle_ends_scale}{Scale factor for the drawn triangle ends of the 
colour bar, if drawn at all. Takes 1 by default (rectangle triangle 
proportional to the thickness of the colour bar). Disregarded if 
'plot = FALSE'.}

\item{extra_labels}{Numeric vector of extra labels to draw along axis of 
the colour bar. The number of provided decimals will be conserved. 
Disregarded if 'plot = FALSE'.}

\item{title}{Title to draw on top of the colour bar, most commonly with the 
units of the represented field in the neighbour figures. Empty by default.}

\item{title_scale}{Scale factor for the 'title' of the colour bar. 
Takes 1 by default.}

\item{label_scale}{Scale factor for the labels of the colour bar. 
Takes 1 by default.}

\item{tick_scale}{Scale factor for the length of the ticks of the labels 
along the colour bar. Takes 1 by default.}

\item{extra_margin}{Extra margins to be added around the colour bar, 
in the format c(y1, x1, y2, x2). The units are margin lines. Takes 
rep(0, 4) by default.}

\item{label_digits}{Number of significant digits to be displayed in the 
labels of the colour bar, usually to avoid too many decimal digits 
overflowing the figure region. This does not have effect over the labels 
provided in 'extra_labels'. Takes 4 by default.}

\item{...}{Arguments to be passed to the method. Only accepts the following 
 graphical parameters:\cr adj ann ask bg bty cex.lab cex.main cex.sub cin 
 col.axis col.lab col.main col.sub cra crt csi cxy err family fg fig fin 
 font font.axis font.lab font.main font.sub lend lheight ljoin lmitre lty 
 lwd mai mex mfcol mfrow mfg mkh oma omd omi page pch pin plt pty smo srt 
 tck tcl usr xaxp xaxs xaxt xlog xpd yaxp yaxs yaxt ylbias ylog.\cr For more 
information about the parameters see `par`.}
}
\value{
\item{brks}{
 Breaks used for splitting the range in intervals.
}
\item{cols}{
 Colours generated for each of the length(brks) - 1 intervals. 
 Always of length length(brks) - 1.
}
\item{col_inf}{
 Colour used to draw the lower triangle end in the colour 
 bar (NULL if not drawn at all).
}
\item{col_sup}{
 Colour used to draw the upper triangle end in the colour 
 bar (NULL if not drawn at all).
}
}
\description{
Generates a color bar to use as colouring function for map plots and 
optionally draws it (horizontally or vertically) to be added to map 
multipanels or plots. It is possible to draw triangles at the ends of the 
colour bar to represent values that go beyond the range of interest. A 
number of options is provided to adjust the colours and the position and 
size of the components. The drawn colour bar spans a whole figure region 
and is compatible with figure layouts.\cr\cr 
The generated colour bar consists of a set of breaks that define the 
length(brks) - 1 intervals to classify each of the values in each of the 
grid cells of a two-dimensional field. The corresponding grid cell of a 
given value of the field will be coloured in function of the interval it 
belongs to.\cr\cr
The only mandatory parameters are 'var_limits' or 'brks' (in its second 
format, see below).
}
\examples{
cols <- c("dodgerblue4", "dodgerblue1", "forestgreen", "yellowgreen", "white",
         "white", "yellow", "orange", "red", "saddlebrown")
lims <- seq(-1, 1, 0.2)
cb <- ColorBarContinuous(lims, cols, plot = FALSE)

}
