colourpicker

Overview

About

Maintained by Dean AttaliFirst published 2016-08-138 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A colour picker that can be used as an input in 'Shiny' apps or Rmarkdown documents. The colour picker supports alpha opacity, custom colour palettes, and many more options. A Plot Colour Helper tool is available as an 'RStudio' Addin, which helps you pick colours to use in your plots. A more generic Colour Picker 'RStudio' Addin is also provided to let you select colours to use in your R code.

Install

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

install.packages("colourpicker", 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("daattali/colourpicker")

Development version from daattali/colourpicker. 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-colourpicker

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-colourpicker

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-colourpicker

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

8

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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

Documentation

READMEYes · 2,170 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 33%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

1.9M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #187 · ~5.1K/day · ~155.2K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ daattali/colourpicker

227Stars

26Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

5Releases

140Commits

6Contributors

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Stars over time

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Repository practices

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Checks run against github.com/daattali/colourpicker on 2026-07-19.

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.1.0

Imports (8)

ggplot2 htmltools htmlwidgets jsonlite miniUI (>= 0.1.1)shiny shinyjsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr rmarkdown rstudioapi shinydisconnect

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 1,406 (77%)Rd 422 (23%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 2.0 median / 30 max

Test coverage

Line coverage

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Functions

20 6 exported

Complexity

4.3 avg / 30 max

Call network

20 nodes / 20 edges

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People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Dean Attali

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Dean Attali

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (1)

David Griswold

Contributor · added in 1.0

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-08-13
Total releases: 8 / 10 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.1.0
Download size: 1.2 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet