R Observatory: Metrics for colorblindcheck version 1.0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

colorblindcheck

1.0.4

Check Color Palettes for Problems with Color Vision Deficiency

1packages depend

33.5Kdownloads / year

91.7%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jakub NowosadFirst published 2021-09-093 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Compare color palettes with simulations of color vision deficiencies - deuteranopia, protanopia, and tritanopia. It includes calculation of distances between colors, and creating summaries of differences between a color palette and simulations of color vision deficiencies. This work was inspired by the blog post at https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/colorblind-check.

Install

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

install.packages("colorblindcheck", 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("Nowosad/colorblindcheck")

Development version from Nowosad/colorblindcheck. 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-colorblindcheck

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-colorblindcheck

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-colorblindcheck

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.97

91.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

3

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 · 617 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

33.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,615 · ~92/day · ~2.8K/mo

Releases R versions

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2.2K30 days

6.6K90 days

33.5K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ nowosad/colorblindcheck

35Stars

4Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

75Commits

3Contributors

rpackagecolorsvisualizationcolor-paletter-packagerstats

75 commits · Last activity 2026-07-20 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-04-22 · 312026-07-07 · 35

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/nowosad/colorblindcheck on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

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Coverage (1)

Codecov

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (3)

colorspacemethodsspacesXYZ

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

rcartocolor testthat knitr rmarkdown covr vdiffr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

cols4all

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Jakub Nowosad

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Jakub Nowosad

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

3 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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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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2021-09-09
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2021-09-09
Total releases: 3 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 52 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("colorblindcheck")

Format

Nowosad, J. (2025). colorblindcheck: Check Color Palettes for Problems with Color Vision Deficiency (Version 1.0.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.colorblindcheck

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for colorblindcheck version 1.0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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