paletteer

1.7.0

Comprehensive Collection of Color Palettes

21packages depend

1.2Mdownloads / year

96.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Emil HvitfeldtFirst published 2018-07-1012 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The choices of color palettes in R can be quite overwhelming with palettes spread over many packages with many different API's. This packages aims to collect all color palettes across the R ecosystem under the same package with a streamlined API.

Install

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

install.packages("paletteer", 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("EmilHvitfeldt/paletteer")

Development version from EmilHvitfeldt/paletteer. 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-paletteer

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

# 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-paletteer

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 72.20

96.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,105 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 83%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

1.2M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #681 · ~3.2K/day · ~97.7K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ emilhvitfeldt/paletteer

1,041Stars

53Forks

4Open issues

0Open PRs

11Releases

279Commits

10Contributors

rstatsrcolor-palettepalettes

279 commits · Last activity 2026-01-08 · +0.3% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

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Continuous integration (1)

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data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Coverage (1)

Codecov

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (5)

cli prismatic rematch2 rlang rstudioapi

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (13)

covr ggplot2 ggthemes harrypotter knitr oompaBase palr pals rmarkdown scico testthat vdiffr viridisLite

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

21direct

9indirect

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Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Emil Hvitfeldt

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.7.0

Authors (2)

Emil Hvitfeldt

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.7.0

See AUTHORS file.

Author · added in 1.7.0

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

Package metadata

First published: 2018-07-10
Total releases: 12 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Bundled data: 175 KB / 6 files
Download size: 3.2 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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