What is the equivalents of matlab's pcolor in R?

Question

I have a 16x16 matrix of grayscale values representing handwriting digits. Is there a plot in R that I can use to visualize it?

Matlab has pcolor, I am looking for something along those lines. pcolor

Answer 1

No need to go to extra packages. Base R already has this, see

• help(image)

• help(heatmap)

and Romain's excellent R Graph Gallery which has a searchable index.

Answer 2

There are many options for something like this. One option is to use the geom_tile in ggplot2:

library(ggplot2)
ggplot(melt(volcano), aes(x=X1, y=X2, fill=value)) + geom_tile()

Ends up looking like this:
_{(source: had.co.nz)}

Some other options include: levelplot (in lattice) or color2D.matplot (in plotrix).