cols4all

0.10

Colors for all

6packages depend

341.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Martijn TennekesFirst published 2023-02-026 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Color palettes for all people, including those with color vision deficiency. Popular color palette series have been organized by type and have been scored on several properties such as color-blind-friendliness and fairness (i.e. do colors stand out equally?). Own palettes can also be loaded and analysed. Besides the common palette types (categorical, sequential, and diverging) it also includes cyclic and bivariate color palettes. Furthermore, a color for missing values is assigned to each palette.

Install

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

install.packages("cols4all", 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("cols4all/cols4all-R")

Development version from cols4all/cols4all-R. 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-cols4all

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-cols4all

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-cols4all

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

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

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

Slowest check: 2.5 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 86%
Return-value docs: 92%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

341.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #758 · ~937/day · ~28.5K/mo

Releases R versions

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341.9K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ cols4all/cols4all-r

370Stars

17Forks

3Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

287Commits

4Contributors

287 commits · Last activity 2026-05-18 · +0.3% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-26 · 3452026-07-22 · 370

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/cols4all/cols4all-r on 2026-08-02.

Continuous integration (1)

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Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (8)

methodsgrDevicesstatsabind png stringdist colorspace spacesXYZ

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

colorblindcheck kableExtra knitr shiny shinyjs ggplot2 scales rmarkdown bookdown bibtex plotly

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

6direct

21indirect

joinpointR tmap tmapverse sits stgam tmaptools

Code & Tests

People & History

People (8)

Maintainer (1)

Martijn Tennekes

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Martijn Tennekes

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (7)

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor

Contributor · added in 0.7

Achim Zeileis

Contributor

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-02-02
Total releases: 6 / 3 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 2.3 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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