R Observatory: Metrics for shades version 1.5.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

shades

1.5.0

Simple Colour Manipulation

6packages depend

220Kdownloads / year

96.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jon ClaydenFirst published 2016-01-069 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Functions for easily manipulating colours, creating colour scales and calculating colour distances.

Install

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

install.packages("shades", 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("jonclayden/shades")

Development version from jonclayden/shades. 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-shades

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-shades

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-shades

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.00

96.0%

Coverage · measured lines

92%

Documentation · exports

0

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-08
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 989 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 88%
Return-value docs: 92%
References docs: 33%

Downloads

220K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #876 · ~603/day · ~18.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

16.7K30 days

52.4K90 days

220K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ jonclayden/shades

86Stars

5Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

6Releases

178Commits

5Contributors

rcolour-manipulationcolor-manipulationcolour-spacescolorcolour

178 commits · Last activity 2026-07-03 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-05 · 862026-07-07 · 86

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jonclayden/shades on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Coverage (2)

Codecov.covrignore

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

tinytest covr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

27indirect

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Jon Clayden

Maintainer, Author

Authors (1)

Jon Clayden

Maintainer, Author

Package Timeline

9 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
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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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
1.4.0
2019-08-02 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.3.1
2019-01-07 · diff ↗
1.3.0
2018-11-19 · diff ↗
1.2.0
2018-04-26 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.1.0
2018-02-06 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2018-01-10 · diff ↗

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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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2016-09-24 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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2016-01-06
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-01-06
Total releases: 9 / 10 yrs
License: BSD_3_clause + file LICENCE OSI
Download size: 35 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("shades")

Format

Clayden, J. (2026). shades: Simple Colour Manipulation (Version 1.5.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.shades

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for shades version 1.5.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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