R Observatory: Metrics for farver version 2.1.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

farver

2.1.2Package record

High Performance Colour Space Manipulation

19packages dependsuggested by 12

15.8Mdownloads / year

49.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Thomas Lin PedersenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit, PBC

The encoding of colour can be handled in many different ways, using different colour spaces. As different colour spaces have different uses, efficient conversion between these representations are important. The 'farver' package provides a set of functions that gives access to very fast colour space conversion and comparisons implemented in C++, and offers speed improvements over the 'convertColor' function in the 'grDevices' package.

Changes in 2.1.2

make sure output channels are always named (#23)
farver can now decode short version hex-code colours (#41)
Fix a bug in colour comparison that affected hcl input (#44)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("farver", 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("thomasp85/farver")

Development version from thomasp85/farver. 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-farver

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-farver

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-farver

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: 2.9 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-25
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-08-20
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-27

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-24
OK13 OK2026-05-22
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-20
OK13 OK2026-05-11
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-10
OK13 OK2026-05-02
ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-04-18
ERROR12 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-04-16
NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-03-31
ERROR12 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-03-28
NOTE13 OK, 1 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.1.2

READMEYes · 449 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.1.2Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 8 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%7 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 76%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

15.8M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #31 · ~43.3K/day · ~1.3M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.3M30 days

4M90 days

15.8M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on182K r2u205 autocran1.7M conda_forge23.6K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

thomasp85/farver ↗Account: thomasp85

144Stars

13Forks

15Open issues

5Open PRs

7Releases

133Commits

5Commit identities

rstatscolor-conversion

133 commits · Last activity 2024-05-13 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.1.2.9000, ahead of CRAN 2.1.2 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 83%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 6
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 8

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 1432026-08-24 · 144

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/thomasp85/farver on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Governance and community (1)

Code of conduct

Docs source (4)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-05-13 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2024-05-13

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

covr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

19direct

7,303indirect

Imports 19

Suggested by 12

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Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

scales patchwork tweenr prismatic thematic aqp pavo ggplate ggblanket ggpointless ggdiagram ggscribe ggvfields colourspace palettes ggtaichi imgpalr ggtwotone gghexsize

Suggests, most downloaded first

systemfonts ggthemes gt ggfx protti jamba sharpshootR bittermelon DESA ATQ col2hex2col displease

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Maintainer since 1.0 (2018), Author

Romain François

Author

Berendea Nicolae

Author

Author of the ColorSpace C++ library

Posit, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 2.1.2

Releases (9)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2.1.2Latest
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2024-05-13 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.1.1
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2022-07-06 · diff ↗
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
2.1.0
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2021-02-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
decode_native, encode_native
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
2.0.3
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2020-01-16 · diff ↗
2.0.2
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2020-01-09 · diff ↗
2.0.1
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2020-01-10 · diff ↗
2.0.0
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2019-11-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
add_to_channel, cap_channel, decode_colour, encode_colour, get_channel, multiply_channel, raise_channel, set_channel
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.1.0
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2018-11-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
as_white_ref

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1.0
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2018-09-17
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-09-17
Total releases: 9 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 1.2 MB

Cite

Cite this package

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citation("farver")

Format

Pedersen, T. L., Posit, PBC, François, R., & Nicolae, B. (2024). farver: High Performance Colour Space Manipulation (Version 2.1.2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.farver

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for farver version 2.1.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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