R Observatory: Metrics for colorspace version 2.1-4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

colorspace

2.1-4Package record

A Toolbox for Manipulating and Assessing Colors and Palettes

160packages dependsuggested by 92

6.1Mdownloads / year

15.2%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Achim ZeileisCRAN page ↗Codeberg ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Carries out mapping between assorted color spaces including RGB, HSV, HLS, CIEXYZ, CIELUV, HCL (polar CIELUV), CIELAB, and polar CIELAB. Qualitative, sequential, and diverging color palettes based on HCL colors are provided along with corresponding ggplot2 color scales. Color palette choice is aided by an interactive app (with either a Tcl/Tk or a shiny graphical user interface) and shiny apps with an HCL color picker and a color vision deficiency emulator. Plotting functions for displaying and assessing palettes include color swatches, visualizations of the HCL space, and trajectories in HCL and/or RGB spectrum. Color manipulation functions include: desaturation, lightening/darkening, mixing, and simulation of color vision deficiencies (deutanomaly, protanomaly, tritanomaly). Details can be found on the project web page at https://colorspace.R-Forge.R-project.org/ and in the accompanying scientific paper: Zeileis et al. (2020, Journal of Statistical Software, doi:10.18637/jss.v096.i01).

Changes in 2.1-4

Code repository changed from R-Forge to Codeberg at: <https://codeberg.org/zeileis/colorspace/>
The URL for the package web page is now: <https://zeileis.codeberg.page/colorspace/>
Fix of the argument checks in the internal .colorspace_set_info() function (provided by Maximilian Scholz).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("colorspace", 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-colorspace

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-colorspace

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-colorspace

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: 3.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-07-15
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-30
OK13 OK2026-06-27

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WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-14
OK13 OK2026-05-11
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-10
OK13 OK2026-05-02
ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-04-24
ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-22
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.1-4

READMENoVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.1-4Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 49
Examples that run: 93%43 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition) · 3 never run
Exported functions with examples: 96%
Documented parameters: 73%
Return-value docs: 70%
Help pages citing references: 33%

Also includes 4 demo scripts (run with demo())

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

6.1M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #129 · ~16.8K/day · ~511.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

491.7K30 days

1.4M90 days

6.1M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on78.5K r2u156 autocran1.8M conda_forge23.9K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

codeberg.org/zeileis/colorspace ↗

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Repository codeberg.org/zeileis/colorspace is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet. Checks are GitHub-only for now.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (2)

R >= 3.0.0methods

Imports (3)

graphicsgrDevicesstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (23)

datasetsutilsKernSmoothMASSkernlab mvtnorm vcdtcltkshiny shinyjs ggplot2 dplyr scalesgridpng jpeg knitr rmarkdown RColorBrewer rcartocolor scico viridis wesanderson

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

160direct

1,930indirect

Depends 11 · Imports 149

Suggested by 92

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 112 more dependents and 92 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (8)

Achim Zeileis

Author, Maintainer since 1.2-0 (2012) · added in 0.97

Jason C. Fisher

Author

Kurt Hornik

Author · added in 0.97

Ross Ihaka

Author

Claire D. McWhite

Author

Paul Murrell

Author · added in 0.97

Reto Stauffer

Author · added in 1.3-0

Claus O. Wilke

Author

Previously maintained by Ross Ihaka (0.9 to 1.1-1).

Listed in earlier versions (3)

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Fisher

no longer listed · 1.2-0 to 2.1-4

McWhite

no longer listed · 1.4-0 to 2.1-4

Wilke

no longer listed · 1.4-0 to 2.1-4

Releases (29)

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2.1-4Latest
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adjust_transparency, scale_color_binned_diverging, scale_color_binned_divergingx, scale_color_binned_qualitative, scale_color_binned_sequential, scale_colour_binned_diverging, scale_colour_binned_divergingx, scale_colour_binned_qualitative, scale_colour_binned_sequential, scale_fill_binned_diverging, scale_fill_binned_divergingx, scale_fill_binned_qualitative, scale_fill_binned_sequential
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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choose_color, cvd_emulator, darken, demoplot, deutan, deutanomaly_cvd, divergex_hcl, diverging_hcl, diverging_hsv, divergingx_hcl, divergingx_palettes, hcl_color_picker, hcl_palettes, hcl_wizard, hclcolorpicker, hclplot, interpolate_cvd_transform, lighten, max_chroma, protan, protanomaly_cvd, qualitative_hcl, scale_color_continuous_diverging, scale_color_continuous_divergingx, scale_color_continuous_qualitative, scale_color_continuous_sequential, scale_color_discrete_diverging, scale_color_discrete_divergingx, scale_color_discrete_qualitative, scale_color_discrete_sequential and 21 more
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Package metadata

First published: 2005-01-20
Total releases: 29 / 21 yrs
License: BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Bundled data: 93 KB / 2 files
Download size: 2.0 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("colorspace")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.18637/jss.v096.i01, 10.1016/j.csda.2008.11.033, 10.1175/bams-d-13-00155.1.

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for colorspace version 2.1-4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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