R Observatory: Metrics for ggpalettes version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ggpalettes

0.2.0

Curated Colour Palettes and Scales for 'ggplot2'

0packages depend

101downloads / year

78.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Yaoxiang LiFirst published 2026-08-041 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides a broad catalogue of original categorical, sequential, and diverging colour palettes for scientific graphics, together with palette functions, named discrete and continuous colour and fill scales, catalogue plots, and palette diagnostics for 'ggplot2'. Palettes can also be retrieved as hexadecimal colour vectors for use in base graphics and other visualization systems.

Install

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

install.packages("ggpalettes", 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("YaoxiangLi/ggpalettes")

Development version from YaoxiangLi/ggpalettes. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

# 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-ggpalettes

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-ggpalettes

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.09

78.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 169 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

101

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,667 · ~0/day · ~8/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ yaoxiangli/ggpalettes

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Last activity 2026-07-26

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/yaoxiangli/ggpalettes on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

3 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

ggplot2grDevicesrlangstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Yaoxiang Li

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Yaoxiang Li

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

0.2.0Latest
2026-08-04 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-08-04
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ggpalettes")

Format

Li, Y. (2026). ggpalettes: Curated Colour Palettes and Scales for 'ggplot2' (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ggpalettes

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ggpalettes version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-13. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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