R Observatory: Metrics for crayons version 0.0.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

crayons

0.0.4Package record

Color Palettes from Crayon Boxes

0packages depend

2.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Christopher T. KennyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides color palettes based on crayon colors since the early 1900s. Colors are based on various crayon colors, sets, and promotional palettes, most of which can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Crayola_crayon_colors. All palettes are discrete palettes and are not necessarily color-blind friendly. Provides scales for 'ggplot2' for discrete coloring.

Changes in 0.0.4

Depends on R 4.1.0 or higher.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("crayons", 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("christopherkenny/crayons")

Development version from christopherkenny/crayons. 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-crayons

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-crayons

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-crayons

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: 1.2 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 0.0.4

READMEYes · 117 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.0.4Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 4 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 67%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

2.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #16,166 · ~8/day · ~237/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

25730 days

78190 days

2.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on144 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

christopherkenny/crayons ↗Account: christopherkenny

6Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

54Commits

1Commit identities

54 commits · Last activity 2026-05-01

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-19 · 62026-07-07 · 6

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

10 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/christopherkenny/crayons on 2026-10-25.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-05-01 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-05-01

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing crayons adds 20 packages (8 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB, farver 1.2 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (3)

ggplot2grDevicespalette

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

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)

Christopher T. Kenny

Author, Maintainer since 0.0.2 (2023)

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.0.4Latest
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2025-09-02 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.0.3
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2024-03-21 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
plot_palette
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.0.2
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2023-03-23
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-03-23
Total releases: 3 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 2.4 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("crayons")

Format

Kenny, C. T. (2025). crayons: Color Palettes from Crayon Boxes (Version 0.0.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.crayons

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

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for crayons version 0.0.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-26. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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