R Observatory: Metrics for pals version 1.10

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

pals

1.10Package record

Color Palettes, Colormaps, and Tools to Evaluate Them

4packages dependsuggested by 5

105.2Kdownloads / year

93.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Kevin WrightCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

A comprehensive collection of color palettes, colormaps, and tools to evaluate them. See Kovesi (2015) doi:10.48550/arXiv.1509.03700.

Changes in 1.10

Fix CRAN check notes.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("pals", 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("kwstat/pals")

Development version from kwstat/pals. 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-pals

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-pals

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-pals

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: 5.1 min · r-release-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.10

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.10Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 28includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 96%26 run in a plain check · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 96%
Help pages citing references: 75%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

105.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,133 · ~288/day · ~8.8K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

7.7K30 days

31.3K90 days

105.2K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on2.4K r2u11 autocran9.6K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

kwstat/pals ↗Account: kwstat

91Stars

4Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

53Commits

2Commit identities

rstats

53 commits · Last activity 2025-03-07 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 50%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 117

Stars over time

2025-08-11 · 882026-07-07 · 91

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/kwstat/pals on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-03-07 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2025-03-07

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing pals adds 4 packages (3 with compiled code, 4.3 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: maps 2.2 MB, colorspace 2.0 MB, dichromat 125 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (8)

colorspace dichromatgraphicsgrDevicesmapproj mapsmethodsstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

classInt ggplot2 knitr latticeExtra reshape2 rgl rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

Imports 4

Suggested by 5

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

wheatmap echogram rcrimeanalysis mineSweepR

Suggests, most downloaded first

paletteer rmcorr UnalR TTR.PGM havel

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Kevin Wright

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
1.10Latest
record
2025-03-07 · current release · diff ↗
1.9
record
2024-07-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
pals.maxcolors
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.8
record
2023-08-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
trubetskoy
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.7
record
2021-04-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
turbo
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.6
record
2019-12-04 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
brewer.orangeblue, brewer.pinkblue

added 14 exports
brewer.divbin, brewer.divdiv, brewer.divseq, brewer.qualbin, brewer.qualseq, brewer.seqseq1, brewer.seqseq2, okabe, pal.heatmap2, stepped2, stepped3, tol.groundcover, vsup.redblue, vsup.viridis
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.5
record
2018-01-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
cividis, tableau20
1.4
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2017-06-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 10 exports
arc.bluepink, brewer.orangeblue, brewer.pinkblue, census.blueyellow, stevens.bluered, stevens.greenblue, stevens.pinkblue, stevens.pinkgreen, stevens.purplegold, tolochko.redblue

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1.3
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2017-06-03 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
pal36

added 1 export
polychrome
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.0
record
2016-12-14
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-12-14
Total releases: 9 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI · relicensed from GPL-3 in 1.8
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 819 KB / 1 file
Download size: 2.3 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("pals")

Format

Wright, K. (2025). pals: Color Palettes, Colormaps, and Tools to Evaluate Them (Version 1.10) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.pals

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 pals version 1.10 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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