hues

0.2.0

Distinct Colour Palettes Based on 'iwanthue'

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4.6Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by John BaumgartnerFirst published 2017-11-072 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Creating effective colour palettes for figures is challenging. This package generates and plot palettes of optimally distinct colours in perceptually uniform colour space, based on 'iwanthue' http://tools.medialab.sciences-po.fr/iwanthue/. This is done through k-means clustering of CIE Lab colour space, according to user-selected constraints on hue, chroma, and lightness.

Install

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

install.packages("hues", 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("johnbaums/hues")

Development version from johnbaums/hues. 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-hues

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-hues

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-hues

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: 56 s · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 120 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 50%

Downloads

4.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,746 · ~13/day · ~385/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ johnbaums/hues

36Stars

5Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

40Commits

3Contributors

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40 commits · Last activity 2019-12-01 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-02 · 342026-07-07 · 36

Repository practices

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

Checks run against github.com/johnbaums/hues on 2026-08-02.

Continuous integration (1)

Travis CI

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.2.0

Imports (2)

colorspacemethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

ggplot2

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

John Baumgartner

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

John Baumgartner

Author, Maintainer

Russell Dinnage

Author · added in 0.2.0

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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-11-07
Total releases: 2 / 9 yrs
License: LGPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 180 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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