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Qualitative Palettes with Many Colors

v1.5.4 · Apr 6, 2025 · Apache License (== 2.0)

Description

Tools for creating, viewing, and assessing qualitative palettes with many (20-30 or more) colors. See Coombes and colleagues (2019) <doi:10.18637/jss.v090.c01>.

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OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 28, 2026
NOTE 13 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 21, 2026
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tests

Running ‘test-07-member.R’ [0s/1s]
  Running ‘testDeficit.R’ [3s/3s]
  Comparing ‘testDeficit.Rout’ to ‘testDeficit.Rout.save’ ...122,124d121
< Warning message:
< In sweep(luv@coords, 2, y0, "-") :
<   STATS is longer than the extent of 'dim(x)[MARGIN]'
  Running ‘testXform.R’ [1s/1s]
  Comparing ‘testXform.Rout’ to ‘testXform.Rout.save’ ... OK
OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

Reverse Dependencies (12)

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies colorspace scatterplot3d ASML CliquePercolation DiscreteGapStatistic Mercator SVAlignR SillyPutty YEAB colorrepel plasma vimpclust RPointCloud WayFindR Polychrome

Version History

new 1.5.4 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.5.4 ← 1.5.1 diff Apr 5, 2025
updated 1.5.1 ← 1.4.0 diff May 2, 2022
updated 1.4.0 ← 1.3.1 diff Apr 14, 2022
updated 1.3.1 ← 1.2.6 diff Jul 15, 2021
updated 1.2.6 ← 1.2.5 diff Nov 10, 2020
updated 1.2.5 ← 1.2.4 diff Mar 28, 2020
updated 1.2.4 ← 1.2.3 diff Feb 2, 2020
updated 1.2.3 ← 1.2.2 diff Jul 31, 2019
updated 1.2.2 ← 1.2.1 diff May 5, 2019
updated 1.2.1 ← 1.2.0 diff Apr 22, 2019
updated 1.2.0 ← 1.1.1 diff Mar 16, 2019
updated 1.1.1 ← 1.1.0 diff May 16, 2018
updated 1.1.0 ← 1.0.0 diff Apr 10, 2018
updated 1.0.0 ← 0.9.3 diff Nov 19, 2017
updated 0.9.3 ← 0.8.2 diff Jun 5, 2017
new 0.8.2 Mar 16, 2017