R Observatory: Metrics for viridis version 0.6.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

viridis

0.6.5Package record

Colorblind-Friendly Color Maps for R

163packages dependsuggested by 124

2.3Mdownloads / year

88.9%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Simon GarnierCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Color maps designed to improve graph readability for readers with common forms of color blindness and/or color vision deficiency. The color maps are also perceptually-uniform, both in regular form and also when converted to black-and-white for printing. This package also contains 'ggplot2' bindings for discrete and continuous color and fill scales. A lean version of the package called 'viridisLite' that does not include the 'ggplot2' bindings can be found at https://cran.r-project.org/package=viridisLite.

Changes in 0.6.5

New features

N/A.

Minor improvements and fixes

Fix a problem with ggplot next release (thanks to @teunbrand).

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From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("viridis", 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("sjmgarnier/viridis")

Development version from sjmgarnier/viridis. 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-viridis

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-viridis

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-viridis

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: 2.5 min · r-release-macos-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 0.6.5

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.6.5Citation fileYes · computed when R runs itWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 4 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 67%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to the viridis color maps

How these are measured

Downloads

2.3M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #248 · ~6.3K/day · ~192.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

176.6K30 days

517.5K90 days

2.3M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on41.5K r2u110 autocran273.8K conda_forge638 bioconda18.2K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

sjmgarnier/viridis ↗Account: sjmgarnier

311Stars

41Forks

13Open issues

3Open PRs

5Releases

169Commits

15Commit identities

rcolor-schemecolor-blindness

169 commits · Last activity 2024-01-28 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 90%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 0
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-27 · 3012026-08-20 · 311

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/sjmgarnier/viridis on 2026-10-18.

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 (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-01-28 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2024-01-28, before release 0.6.5 (2024-01-29)

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing viridis adds 18 packages (7 with compiled code, 14 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, isoband 1.5 MB, farver 1.2 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 2.10viridisLite

Imports (2)

ggplot2 gridExtra

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (15)

hexbin scalesMASSknitr dichromat colorspace httr mapproj vdiffr svglite testthat covr rmarkdown maps terra

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

163direct

207indirect

Depends 2 · Imports 161

Suggested by 124

Show the 48 most downloaded dependentsHide the 48 most downloaded dependents

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

and 115 more dependents and 124 packages that suggest it on CRAN ↗

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (6)

Simon Garnier

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2015)

Antônio Pedro Camargo

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.6.0

Noam Ross

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.2.5

Bob Rudis

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.2.5

Cédric Scherer

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.5.0

Marco Sciaini

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 0.5.0

Releases (17)

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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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2024-01-29 · current release · diff ↗
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2023-07-22 · diff ↗
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2023-05-03 · 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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2021-10-13 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2021-05-11 · diff ↗
0.6.0
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2021-04-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
mako, rocket, turbo
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.5.1
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2018-03-29 · diff ↗

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0.5.0
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2018-02-02 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
cividis
0.4.1
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2018-01-08 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.4.0
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2017-03-27 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
scale_colour_viridis, viridis.map
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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2016-03-04 · diff ↗
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2015-12-31 · diff ↗
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2015-10-11 · diff ↗
0.3
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2015-10-11 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
inferno, magma, plasma
0.2.5
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2015-09-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
scale_color_viridis, scale_fill_viridis, viridis_pal
0.1
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2015-07-19
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-07-19
Total releases: 17 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 51 KB / 1 file
Download size: 2.9 MB

Appears in task views

Analysis of Spatial Data

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("viridis")

The package provides a citation file that builds its entry when R runs it. Run citation() to see it.

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 viridis version 0.6.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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