R Observatory: Metrics for cmocean version 0.3-2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

cmocean

0.3-2Package record

Beautiful Colour Maps for Oceanography

1packages dependsuggested by 1

7.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ivan KrylovCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Perceptually uniform palettes for commonly used variables in oceanography as functions taking an integer and producing character vectors of colours. See Thyng, K.M., Greene, C.A., Hetland, R.D., Zimmerle, H.M. and S.F. DiMarco (2016) doi:10.5670/oceanog.2016.66 for the guidelines adhered to when creating the palettes.

Changes in 0.3-2

Omitted MathJax from the vignette, making it free from external dependencies
Various updates in the DESCRIPTION

From inst/NEWS.Rd in the release

Install

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

install.packages("cmocean", 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("aitap/cmocean")

Development version from aitap/cmocean. 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-cmocean

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-cmocean

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-cmocean

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: 55 s · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3-2

READMEYes · 30 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · mentions 0.3-2Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Help pages: 3includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%2 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 33%

Vignettes (1)

Beautiful colormaps for oceanography: cmocean

How these are measured

Downloads

7.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,016 · ~22/day · ~659/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

60830 days

1.6K90 days

7.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on306 r2u11 autocran99 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

aitap/cmocean ↗Account: aitap

6Stars

3Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

91Commits

3Commit identities

91 commits · Last activity 2025-07-27 · Default branch at 0.3-2.9999, ahead of CRAN 0.3-2 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-10-15 · 62026-07-07 · 6

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

1 development-tooling and community-health practice detected across 1 family in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/aitap/cmocean on 2026-10-11.

Git structural (1)

Submodules

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing cmocean adds no packages beyond those that come with R.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (1)

grDevices

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

1indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

plotdap

Suggests, most downloaded first

rerddapXtracto

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Ivan Krylov

Maintainer since 0.1-1 (2019)

Kristen Thyng

Author

Ilja Kocken

Contributor · added in 0.3-1

Clark Richards

Contributor

Releases (4)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.3-2Latest
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2024-08-30 · current release · diff ↗
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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
0.3-1
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2020-11-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
scale_colour_cmocean, scale_color_cmocean, scale_fill_cmocean
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2019-05-06 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.1-1
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2019-04-23
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2019-04-23
Total releases: 4 / 7 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Download size: 198 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("cmocean")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.5670/oceanog.2016.66.

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 cmocean version 0.3-2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-17. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-17, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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