R Observatory: Metrics for randomcoloR version 1.1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

randomcoloR

1.1.0.1Package record

Generate Attractive Random Colors

10packages dependsuggested by 4

55.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ron AmmarCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Simple methods to generate attractive random colors. The random colors are from a wrapper of 'randomColor.js' https://github.com/davidmerfield/randomColor. In addition, it also generates optimally distinct colors based on k-means (inspired by 'IWantHue' https://github.com/medialab/iwanthue).

Install

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

install.packages("randomcoloR", 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("ronammar/randomcoloR")

Development version from ronammar/randomcoloR. 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-randomcolor

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-randomcoloR

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-randomcoloR

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Ron Ammar <ron.ammar@gmail.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = "Ron",
                    family = "Ammar",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "ron.ammar@gmail.com")
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE9 OK, 5 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.0.1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 2
Examples that run: 100%1 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 67%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

55.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,755 · ~153/day · ~4.7K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.6K30 days

11.8K90 days

55.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on788 r2u3 autocran2.8K conda_forge68 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

ronammar/randomcolor ↗Account: ronammar

72Stars

6Forks

5Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

40Commits

4Commit identities

40 commits · Last activity 2018-03-05 · 0% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (1.1.0) than CRAN on 2026-10-22

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 14
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: not measured

Stars over time

2025-10-13 · 712026-07-07 · 72

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/ronammar/randomcolor on 2026-10-22.

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing randomcoloR adds 20 packages (13 with compiled code, 23 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, colorspace 2.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (9)

colorspace stringr V8statsmethodsscales RtsnegrDevicescluster

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

10direct

7indirect

Depends 1 · Imports 9

Suggested by 4

Show all 14 packagesHide all 14 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

RSDA bdl aPCoA rKIN fdq func2vis presenter mully JFM IOLS

Suggests, most downloaded first

funtimes sharp delimtools stCEG

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (1)

Ron Ammar

Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2016)

Releases (3)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.1.0.1Latest
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2019-11-24 · current release · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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2016-03-29
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-03-29
Total releases: 3 / 10 yrs
License: CC0
Download size: 5.8 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("randomcoloR")

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for randomcoloR version 1.1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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