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Plot a rasterVis::levelplot with a colour ramp diverging around zero
diverge0 <- function(p, ramp) {
# p: a trellis object resulting from rasterVis::levelplot
# ramp: the name of an RColorBrewer palette (as character), a character
# vector of colour names to interpolate, or a colorRampPalette.
require(RColorBrewer)
require(rasterVis)
if(length(ramp)==1 && is.character(ramp) && ramp %in%
row.names(brewer.pal.info)) {
ramp <- suppressWarnings(colorRampPalette(brewer.pal(11, ramp)))
} else if(length(ramp) > 1 && is.character(ramp) && all(ramp %in% colors())) {
ramp <- colorRampPalette(ramp)
} else if(!is.function(ramp))
stop('ramp should be either the name of a RColorBrewer palette, ',
'a vector of colours to be interpolated, or a colorRampPalette.')
rng <- range(p$legend[[1]]$args$key$at)
s <- seq(-max(abs(rng)), max(abs(rng)), len=1001)
i <- findInterval(rng[which.min(abs(rng))], s)
zlim <- switch(which.min(abs(rng)), `1`=i:(1000+1), `2`=1:(i+1))
p$legend[[1]]$args$key$at <- s[zlim]
p[[grep('^legend', names(p))]][[1]]$args$key$col <- ramp(1000)[zlim[-length(zlim)]]
p$panel.args.common$col.regions <- ramp(1000)[zlim[-length(zlim)]]
p
}
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Example

library(rasterVis)
r <- raster(matrix(runif(100, -10, 30), 10))
p <- levelplot(r, margin=FALSE, at=seq(-10, 30, 1))
diverge0(p, 'RdBu')

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How can I revert the ramp from brewer.pal in the function?
For example:
rev(colorRampPalette(brewer.pal(11, "RdBu"))

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@FVFaleiro you can pass a colorRampPalette to the function, so just move the rev inside the colorRampPalette:

diverge0(p, colorRampPalette(rev(brewer.pal(11, "RdBu"))))

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Note that the tmap package has some useful functionality for this as well:

library(tmap)
tm_shape(r) +
  tm_raster(midpoint=0, style='cont', title='foo', palette='-RdBu',
            breaks=pretty(cellStats(r, range), 7), legend.reverse=TRUE) +
  tm_layout(legend.outside=TRUE)

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Great, @johnbaums! Thanks!
How do you set the legend in the rasterVis to be in a continuous aspect? Aparently the default of levelplot have the colors like categories instead a smoth transition between the colors.

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johnbaums commented Nov 12, 2019

@FVFaleiro you just need to set enough breaks along the legend:

r <- raster::raster(matrix(runif(100), 10))
rasterVis::levelplot(r, at=seq(0, 1, length.out=100))

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Thanks, @johnbaums!

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