R Observatory: Metrics for colorrepel version 0.5.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

colorrepel

0.5.2

Repel Visually Similar Colors for Colorblind Users in Various Plots

1packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Rui FuFirst published 2024-09-176 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Iterate and repel visually similar colors away in various 'ggplot2' plots. When many groups are plotted at the same time on multiple axes, for instance stacked bars or scatter plots, effectively ordering colors becomes difficult. This tool iterates through color combinations to find the best solution to maximize visual distinctness of nearby groups, so plots are more friendly toward colorblind users. This is achieved by two distance measurements, distance between groups within the plot, and CIELAB color space distances between colors as described in Carter et al., (2018) doi:10.25039/TR.015.2018.

Install

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

install.packages("colorrepel", 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("raysinensis/color_repel")

Development version from raysinensis/color_repel. 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-colorrepel

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-colorrepel

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-colorrepel

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

18

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
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 285 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,704 · ~7/day · ~219/mo

Releases R versions

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24730 days

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Repository

GitHub ↗ raysinensis/color_repel

11Stars

0Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

124Commits

1Contributors

124 commits · Last activity 2026-08-22 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

Checks run against github.com/raysinensis/color_repel on 2026-08-16.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (18)

grDevicesmatrixStatsMatrixdistancesstatsdqrng gtools purrr dplyr plyr stringr ggplot2 ggrepel plotly knitr png Polychrome mascarade

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

colorspace

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

mascarade

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Rui Fu

Maintainer, Author, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Rui Fu

Maintainer, Author, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (1)

Rui Fu

Maintainer, Author, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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

0.5.2Latest
2026-08-22 · current release · diff ↗
0.5.0
2026-07-14 · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.4.3
2025-07-21 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.4.1
2025-01-19 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2024-09-29 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2024-09-17
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2024-09-17
Total releases: 6 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 1.2 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Fu, R. (2026). colorrepel: Repel Visually Similar Colors for Colorblind Users in Various Plots (Version 0.5.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.colorrepel

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for colorrepel version 0.5.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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