Formula to determine brightness of RGB color

Question

I\'m looking for some kind of formula or algorithm to determine the brightness of a color given the RGB values. I know it can\'t be as simple as adding the RGB values toget

Answer 1

To determine the brightness of a color with R, I convert the RGB system color in HSV system color.

In my script, I use the HEX system code before for other reason, but you can start also with RGB system code with rgb2hsv {grDevices}. The documentation is here.

Here is this part of my code:

 sample <- c("#010101", "#303030", "#A6A4A4", "#020202", "#010100")
 hsvc <-rgb2hsv(col2rgb(sample)) # convert HEX to HSV
 value <- as.data.frame(hsvc) # create data.frame
 value <- value[3,] # extract the information of brightness
 order(value) # ordrer the color by brightness