R Observatory: Metrics for RColorBrewer version 1.1-3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RColorBrewer

1.1-3Package record

ColorBrewer Palettes

467packages dependsuggested by 258

15.6Mdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Erich NeuwirthCRAN page ↗

Provides color schemes for maps (and other graphics) designed by Cynthia Brewer as described at http://colorbrewer2.org.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("RColorBrewer", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-rcolorbrewer

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-RColorBrewer

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-RColorBrewer

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Erich Neuwirth <erich.neuwirth@univie.ac.at>’

The Description field contains
  Cynthia Brewer as described at http://colorbrewer2.org.
Please enclose URLs in angle brackets (<...>).

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 44 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-09-08
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1-3

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 1
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

15.6M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #32 · ~42.8K/day · ~1.3M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.2M30 days

3.9M90 days

15.6M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on183.3K r2u71 autocran1.7M conda_forge23.6K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing RColorBrewer adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.0.0

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

467direct

7,135indirect

Depends 24 · Imports 443

Suggested by 258

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 419 more dependents and 258 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Erich Neuwirth

Author, Maintainer since 0.1-1 (2002)

Releases (13)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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2022-04-03 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
1.1-2
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2014-12-07 · diff ↗
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
1.0-5
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2011-06-17 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
brewer.all.info

added 1 export
brewer.pal.info
1.0-4
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2011-06-15 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
brewer.pal.info

added 1 export
brewer.all.info
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
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R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26
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R 2.9.0 released · 2009-04-17
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R 2.8.0 released · 2008-10-20
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R 2.7.0 released · 2008-04-22
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2007-10-22 · diff ↗
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R 2.6.0 released · 2007-10-03
1.0-1
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2007-07-16 · diff ↗
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R 2.5.0 released · 2007-04-24
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R 2.4.0 released · 2006-10-03
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R 2.3.0 released · 2006-04-24
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R 2.2.0 released · 2005-10-06
0.2-3
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2005-04-18 · diff ↗
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R 2.1.0 released · 2005-04-18
0.2-2
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2004-12-02 · diff ↗
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R 2.0.0 released · 2004-10-04
0.2-1
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2004-04-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
brewer.pal.info
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R 1.9.0 released · 2004-04-12
0.1-4
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2004-04-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
display.brewer.all
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R 1.8.0 released · 2003-10-08
0.1-3
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2003-06-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
brewer.pal, display.brewer.pal
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R 1.7.0 released · 2003-04-16
0.1-2
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2003-02-11 · diff ↗
0.1-1
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2002-10-31
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R 1.6.0 released · 2002-10-01

Package metadata

First published: 2002-10-31
Total releases: 13 / 24 yrs
License: Apache License 2.0 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.0.0
Download size: 11 KB

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Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("RColorBrewer")

Format

Neuwirth, E. (2022). RColorBrewer: ColorBrewer Palettes (Version 1.1-3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.RColorBrewer

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for RColorBrewer version 1.1-3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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