R Observatory: Metrics for simplecolors version 0.1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

simplecolors

0.1.4

Access Color Names Using a Standardized Nomenclature

0packages depend

6.6Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jake RileyFirst published 2020-02-015 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A curated set of colors that are called using a standardized syntax: saturation + hue + lightness. For example, "brightblue4" and "mutedred2". Functions exists to return individual colors by name or to build palettes across or within hues. Most functions allow you to visualize the palettes in addition to returning the desired hex codes.

Install

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

install.packages("simplecolors", 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("rjake/simplecolors")

Development version from rjake/simplecolors. 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-simplecolors

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-simplecolors

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-simplecolors

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.20

100.0%

Coverage · measured lines

93%

Documentation · exports

7

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
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

6.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,085 · ~18/day · ~550/mo

Releases R versions

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19030 days

1.2K90 days

6.6K1 year

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Also on134 r2u17 autocran

Repository

GitHub ↗ rjake/simplecolors

15Stars

0Forks

9Open issues

2Open PRs

5Releases

129Commits

2Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 129 commits · Last activity 2025-09-02

Stars over time

2025-04-02 · 152026-07-07 · 15

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rjake/simplecolors on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Coverage (1)

Codecov

Governance and community (1)

Issue templates

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (7)

colorspace dplyr forcats ggplot2 magrittrstatsstringr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

knitr rmarkdown testthat covr devtools spelling

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Jake Riley

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Jake Riley

Author, Maintainer

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
0.1.4Latest
2025-09-02 · current release · diff ↗
0.1.3
2025-08-22 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.1.2
2023-08-31 · diff ↗
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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
0.1.1
2020-10-27 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
0.1.0
2020-02-01
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2020-02-01
Total releases: 5 / 6 yrs
License: GNU General Public License
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Bundled data: 2.4 KB / 1 file
Download size: 1.2 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("simplecolors")

Format

Riley, J. (2025). simplecolors: Access Color Names Using a Standardized Nomenclature (Version 0.1.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.simplecolors

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for simplecolors version 0.1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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