colorspace

2.1-3

A Toolbox for Manipulating and Assessing Colors and Palettes

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Overview

About

Maintained by Achim ZeileisFirst published 2005-01-2028 releasesCRAN page ↗

Carries out mapping between assorted color spaces including RGB, HSV, HLS, CIEXYZ, CIELUV, HCL (polar CIELUV), CIELAB, and polar CIELAB. Qualitative, sequential, and diverging color palettes based on HCL colors are provided along with corresponding ggplot2 color scales. Color palette choice is aided by an interactive app (with either a Tcl/Tk or a shiny graphical user interface) and shiny apps with an HCL color picker and a color vision deficiency emulator. Plotting functions for displaying and assessing palettes include color swatches, visualizations of the HCL space, and trajectories in HCL and/or RGB spectrum. Color manipulation functions include: desaturation, lightening/darkening, mixing, and simulation of color vision deficiencies (deutanomaly, protanomaly, tritanomaly). Details can be found on the project web page at https://colorspace.R-Forge.R-project.org/ and in the accompanying scientific paper: Zeileis et al. (2020, Journal of Statistical Software, doi:10.18637/jss.v096.i01).

Install

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

install.packages("colorspace", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-colorspace

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-colorspace

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-colorspace

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

Health

CRAN checks

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Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 93%
Documented parameters: 73%
Return-value docs: 70%
References docs: 33%

Downloads

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 3.0.0methods

Imports (3)

graphicsgrDevicesstats

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (23)

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People (8)

Maintainer (1)

Achim Zeileis

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.97

Authors (8)

Achim Zeileis

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.97

Jason C. Fisher

Author

Kurt Hornik

Author · added in 0.97

Ross Ihaka

Author

Claire D. McWhite

Author

Paul Murrell

Author · added in 0.97

Reto Stauffer

Author · added in 1.3-0

Claus O. Wilke

Author

Listed in earlier versions (3)

Fisher

no longer listed · 1.2-0 to 2.1-3

McWhite

no longer listed · 1.4-0 to 2.1-3

Wilke

no longer listed · 1.4-0 to 2.1-3

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Package metadata

First published: 2005-01-20
Total releases: 28 / 21 yrs
License: BSD_3_clause + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Bundled data: 93 KB / 2 files
Download size: 2.0 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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