R Observatory: Metrics for scico version 1.5.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

scico

1.5.0Package record

Colour Palettes Based on the Scientific Colour-Maps

3packages dependsuggested by 5

94.7Kdownloads / year

29.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Thomas Lin PedersenCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Colour choice in information visualisation is important in order to avoid being mislead by inherent bias in the used colour palette. The 'scico' package provides access to the perceptually uniform and colour-blindness friendly palettes developed by Fabio Crameri and released under the "Scientific Colour-Maps" moniker. The package contains 24 different palettes and includes both diverging and sequential types.

Changes in 1.5.0

Update palettes to Scientific Color Maps 8.0

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("scico", 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/scico")

Development version from thomasp85/scico. 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-scico

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-scico

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-scico

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: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.5.0

READMEYes · 197 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.5.0Citation fileNo

Help pages: 5 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 75%
Documented parameters: 86%
Return-value docs: 50%
Help pages citing references: 20%

How these are measured

Downloads

94.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,431 · ~259/day · ~7.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

5.9K30 days

18.6K90 days

94.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on614 r2u10 autocran5.6K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

thomasp85/scico ↗Account: thomasp85

483Stars

23Forks

2Open issues

2Open PRs

5Releases

47Commits

5Commit identities

rstatscolor-palettevisualization

47 commits · Last activity 2023-08-14 · +0.2% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.5.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 1.5.0 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 67%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 70
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 89

Stars over time

2025-09-24 · 4542026-09-23 · 483

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/thomasp85/scico 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

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Show all practicesHide 1 practice

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing scico adds 10 packages (4 with compiled code, 4.4 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: farver 1.2 MB, viridisLite 1.2 MB, rlang 766 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (2)

scalesgrDevices

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

ggplot2 testthat dplyr covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

Imports 3

Suggested by 5

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

WaverideR ztils layer

Suggests, most downloaded first

colorspace paletteer ebirdst hmmTMB SpatPCA

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Thomas Lin Pedersen

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.0 (2018)

Fabio Crameri

Author

Releases (7)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.5.0Latest
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2023-08-14 · current release · diff ↗
1.4.0
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2023-05-30 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
1.3.1
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2022-08-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.3.0
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2021-12-08 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.2.0
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2020-06-08 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.1.0
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2018-11-20 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
scale_color_scico_d, scale_colour_scico_d, scale_fill_scico_d
1.0.0
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2018-05-30
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-05-30
Total releases: 7 / 8 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Download size: 258 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("scico")

Format

Pedersen, T. L., & Crameri, F. (2023). scico: Colour Palettes Based on the Scientific Colour-Maps (Version 1.5.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.scico

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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 scico version 1.5.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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