R Observatory: Metrics for biopalette version 0.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

biopalette

0.2.2Package record

Image-Inspired Color Palettes for Biomedical Visualization

0packages depend

533downloads / year

95.4%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Yibin ZhouCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides a curated collection of image-inspired color palettes for biomedical visualization. The palettes are organized as qualitative, sequential, or diverging scales and include documented source context and intended use. The package provides functions to retrieve, inspect, preview, and apply these palettes in base R and 'ggplot2' graphics, together with utilities for working with palette definitions.

Changes in 0.2.2

*Current release: August 2026*

Maintenance

Replaced relative README links with stable GitHub URLs for CRAN checks.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("biopalette", 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("evanbio/biopalette")

Development version from evanbio/biopalette. 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-biopalette

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-biopalette

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-biopalette

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK12 OK2026-09-08
ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK9 OK2026-09-04

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.2

READMEYes · 841 wordsVignettesYes · 4 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 12includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 82%9 run in a plain check · 2 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (4)

How these are measured

Downloads

533

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #23,930 · ~1/day · ~44/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

23330 days

53390 days

5331 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on12 r2u25 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

evanbio/biopalette ↗Account: evanbio

0Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

3Releases

63Commits

1Commit identities

63 commits · Last activity 2026-09-10

Responsiveness

not measured

Commits over time

2026-09-06 · 552026-09-15 · 63

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/evanbio/biopalette on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (1)

Contributing guide

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-10 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-10

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing biopalette adds 18 packages (8 with compiled code, 15 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB, farver 1.2 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (4)

cli ggplot2 jsonlite scales

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Yibin Zhou

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.2 (2026)

Releases (1)

0.2.2Latest
record
2026-09-02 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-09-02
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 641 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("biopalette")

Format

Zhou, Y. (2026). biopalette: Image-Inspired Color Palettes for Biomedical Visualization (Version 0.2.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.biopalette

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for biopalette version 0.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-24, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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