xkcdcolors

Color Names from the XKCD Color Survey

v1.0 · Apr 22, 2016 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

The XKCD color survey asked participants to name colours. Randall Munroe published the top thousand(roughly) names and their sRGB hex values. This package lets you use them.

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r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang	NOTE	21.4s
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc	NOTE	18s
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang	OK	31.4s
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc	OK	30.3s
r-devel-macos-arm64	OK	10s
r-devel-windows-x86_64	OK	48s
r-oldrel-macos-arm64	OK
r-oldrel-macos-x86_64	OK	23s
r-oldrel-windows-x86_64	OK	49s
r-patched-linux-x86_64	OK	19.7s
r-release-linux-x86_64	OK	18.7s
r-release-macos-arm64	OK
r-release-macos-x86_64	OK	24s
r-release-windows-x86_64	OK	47s

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Maintainer: ‘Thomas Lumley <t.lumley@auckland.ac.nz>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Thomas",
                      family = "Lumley",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "t.lumley@auckland.ac.nz"),
               person(given = c("using", "data", "from", "Randall"),
                      family = "Munroe",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = c("about", "2.2e5", "survey"),
                      family = "participants",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

CRAN incoming feasibility

Maintainer: ‘Thomas Lumley <t.lumley@auckland.ac.nz>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Thomas",
                      family = "Lumley",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "t.lumley@auckland.ac.nz"),
               person(given = c("using", "data", "from", "Randall"),
                      family = "Munroe",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = c("about", "2.2e5", "survey"),
                      family = "participants",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.

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NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang

CRAN incoming feasibility

Maintainer: ‘Thomas Lumley <t.lumley@auckland.ac.nz>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Thomas",
                      family = "Lumley",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
       
...[truncated]...
, "Randall"),
                      family = "Munroe",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = c("about", "2.2e5", "survey"),
                      family = "participants",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

CRAN incoming feasibility

Maintainer: ‘Thomas Lumley <t.lumley@auckland.ac.nz>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Thomas",
                      family = "Lumley",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
       
...[truncated]...
, "Randall"),
                      family = "Munroe",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = c("about", "2.2e5", "survey"),
                      family = "participants",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.

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new 1.0 Mar 10, 2026