R Observatory: Metrics for cols4all version 0.10

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

cols4all

0.10Package record

Colors for all

2packages dependsuggested by 3

316.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Martijn TennekesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Color palettes for all people, including those with color vision deficiency. Popular color palette series have been organized by type and have been scored on several properties such as color-blind-friendliness and fairness (i.e. do colors stand out equally?). Own palettes can also be loaded and analysed. Besides the common palette types (categorical, sequential, and diverging) it also includes cyclic and bivariate color palettes. Furthermore, a color for missing values is assigned to each palette.

Changes in 0.10

palettes from bivario added
black and white option added

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("cols4all", 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("cols4all/cols4all-R")

Development version from cols4all/cols4all-R. 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-cols4all

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-cols4all

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-cols4all

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 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.10

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.10Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 13includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%11 run in a plain check (1 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 92%
Documented parameters: 86%
Return-value docs: 92%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

316.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #750 · ~868/day · ~26.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

32.3K30 days

67.1K90 days

316.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on2.2K r2u12 autocran2.1K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

cols4all/cols4all-r ↗Organization: cols4all

370Stars

17Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

289Commits

4Commit identities

289 commits · Last activity 2026-09-02 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.11, ahead of CRAN 0.10 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 86%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 21
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-17 · 3492026-09-04 · 370

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/cols4all/cols4all-r on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-09-02 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-09-02

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing cols4all adds 6 packages (3 with compiled code, 4.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: colorspace 2.0 MB, logger 1.1 MB, stringdist 843 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (8)

methodsgrDevicesstatsabind png stringdist colorspace spacesXYZ

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

colorblindcheck kableExtra knitr shiny shinyjs ggplot2 scales rmarkdown bookdown bibtex plotly

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

2direct

21indirect

Imports 2

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

tmap tmapverse

Suggests, most downloaded first

tmaptools sits stgam

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (8)

Martijn Tennekes

Author, Maintainer since 0.6 (2023)

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor · added in 0.7

Achim Zeileis

Contributor

Releases (6)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.10Latest
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2025-10-27 · current release · diff ↗
0.9
record
2025-08-28 · diff ↗
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.8
record
2024-10-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
c4a_ramp
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.7-1
record
2024-03-12 · diff ↗
0.7
record
2024-03-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
c4a_duplicate, c4a_modify, c4a_plot_cvd, c4a_plot_hex, c4a_scores
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.6
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2023-02-02
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-02-02
Total releases: 6 / 3 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 2.3 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("cols4all")

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

It points to 10.2312/evs.20231040.

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 cols4all version 0.10 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-18, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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