R Observatory: Metrics for palettes version 0.2.2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

palettes

0.2.2

Methods for Colour Vectors and Colour Palettes

0packages depend

5.8Kdownloads / year

94.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael McCarthyFirst published 2022-12-195 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides a comprehensive library for colour vectors and colour palettes using a new family of colour classes (palettes_colour and palettes_palette) that always print as hex codes with colour previews. Capabilities include: formatting, casting and coercion, extraction and updating of components, plotting, colour mixing arithmetic, and colour interpolation.

Install

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

install.packages("palettes", 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("mccarthy-m-g/palettes")

Development version from mccarthy-m-g/palettes. 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-palettes

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-palettes

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-palettes

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.42

94.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

11

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 239 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 86%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

5.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,524 · ~16/day · ~483/mo

Releases R versions

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1.2K90 days

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Repository

GitHub ↗ mccarthy-m-g/palettes

31Stars

2Forks

13Open issues

1Open PRs

5Releases

235Commits

3Contributors

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235 commits · Last activity 2025-07-01 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

8 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/mccarthy-m-g/palettes on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Research and citation (1)

CITATION.cff

Lint, format, editor (1)

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Coverage (1)

Codecov

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

26 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (11)

vctrs climethodspillar rlang purrr prismatic farver ggplot2 scales tibble

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (17)

pkgdown testthat dplyr knitr rmarkdown colorspace gt biscale sf patchwork MetBrewer nord PNWColors viridisLite covrgrDeviceswithr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Michael McCarthy

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Michael McCarthy

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (1)

Michael McCarthy

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

5 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.2Latest
2025-07-01 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.2.1
2024-07-14 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.2.0
2024-02-05 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.1.1
2023-01-12 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2022-12-19
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-12-19
Total releases: 5 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 8.6 KB / 10 files
Download size: 563 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("palettes")

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for palettes version 0.2.2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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