R Observatory: Metrics for amerika version 0.1.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

amerika

0.1.1

American Politics-Inspired Color Palette Generator

2packages depend

4.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Philip WaggonerFirst published 2019-05-032 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A color palette generator inspired by American politics, with colors ranging from blue on the left to gray in the middle and red on the right. A variety of palettes allow for a range of applications from brief discrete scales (e.g., three colors for Democrats, Independents, and Republicans) to continuous interpolated arrays including dozens of shades graded from blue (left) to red (right). This package greatly benefitted from building on the source code (with permission) from Ram and Wickham (2015).

Install

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

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

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

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("pdwaggoner/amerika")

Development version from pdwaggoner/amerika. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

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-amerika

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-amerika

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-amerika

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 47 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

0

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 368 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 50%
References docs: 33%

Downloads

4.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,173 · ~13/day · ~403/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ pdwaggoner/amerika

7Stars

0Forks

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0Open PRs

0Releases

54Commits

1Contributors

colorpalette-generationvisualizationr

License MIT · 54 commits · Last activity 2025-04-29

Stars over time

2025-01-08 · 72026-07-07 · 7

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Checks run against github.com/pdwaggoner/amerika on 2026-08-23.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

0 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

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Reverse dependencies

2direct

0indirect

plotGMM plotmm

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Philip Waggoner

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Philip Waggoner

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2019-05-03
Total releases: 2 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 4.2 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("amerika")

Format

Waggoner, P. (2025). amerika: American Politics-Inspired Color Palette Generator (Version 0.1.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.amerika

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for amerika version 0.1.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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