There is a handy webpage which provides a chart of colours available in R. The chart is also available in pdf from the webpage.
There are the following book reviews on this website:
Book Review – Modern Applied Statistics with S by W. N. Venables and B. D. Ripley (Springer 2003)
Book Review – ggplot 2: Elegant Graphics for Data Analysis by Hadley Wickham (Springer 2009)
Book Review – Lattice: Multivariate Data Visualization with R by Deepayan Sarkar (Springer 2008)