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ggsci

5.1.0

Scientific Journal and Sci-Fi Themed Color Palettes for 'ggplot2'

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2.3Mdownloads / year
test coverage
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Overview

About
Maintained by Nan XiaoFirst published 2016-04-0419 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A collection of 'ggplot2' color palettes inspired by plots in scientific journals, data visualization libraries, science fiction movies, and TV shows.

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Health

CRAN checks
13OK
Slowest check: 4.5 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang
Code health
None
Tests · ratio 0.00
not tracked
Coverage
100%
Documentation · exports
4
Dependencies · direct
Check history
  • OK2026-06-08
    13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
  • NOTE2026-06-07
    12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
  • OK2026-03-10
    14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

Documentation
READMEYes · 188 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo
Examples that run
100%
Documented parameters
96%
Return-value docs
5%
References docs
27%

Downloads

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Repository

Repository
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68Forks
0Open issues
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17Releases
335Commits
5Contributors
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License GPL-3.0 · 335 commits · Last activity 2026-07-25 · +0.5% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

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

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Continuous integration (1)
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Docs source (1)
README.Rmd
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Dependencies

Declared dependencies
7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)
Depends (1)
R >= 3.5.0
Imports (4)
LinkingTo (0)
none
Enhances (0)
none

Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)
Maintainer (1)
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Authors (1)
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Contributors (6)
Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 4.0.0
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Contributor · added in 3.1.0
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Contributor · added in 3.0.0
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Copyright holders (3)
Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder
Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 4.0.0
Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 4.0.0
Package Timeline

19 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

  • 5.1.0Latest
    2026-06-26 · current release · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
  • 5.0.0
    2026-04-17 · diff ↗
  • 4.3.0
    2026-04-09 · diff ↗
  • 4.2.0
    2025-12-17 · diff ↗
  • 4.1.0
    2025-10-25 · diff ↗
  • 4.0.0
    2025-09-23 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
  • 3.2.0
    2024-06-18 · diff ↗
  • 3.1.0
    2024-05-21 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
  • 3.0.3
    2024-03-25 · diff ↗
  • 3.0.2
    2024-03-18 · diff ↗
  • 3.0.1
    2024-03-02 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
  • 3.0.0
    2023-03-08 · diff ↗
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  • R
    R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
  • R
    R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
  • R
    R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
  • R
    R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
  • 2.9
    2018-05-14 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
  • 2.8
    2017-09-30 · diff ↗
  • 2.7
    2017-06-12 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
  • 2.4
    2017-03-08 · diff ↗
  • 2.0
    2016-11-21 · diff ↗
  • 1.5
    2016-08-05 · diff ↗
  • R
    R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
  • 1.1
    2016-04-04
  • R
    R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published
2016-04-04
Total releases
19 / 10 yrs
License
GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R
≥ 3.5.0
Download size
2.0 MB
Installed size
not tracked yet
With dependencies
not tracked yet
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