palr

0.4.0

Colour Palettes for Data

3packages depend

41.7Kdownloads / year

92.7%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael D. SumnerFirst published 2015-06-116 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Colour palettes for data, based on some well known public data sets. Includes helper functions to map absolute values to known palettes, and capture the work of image colour mapping as raster data sets.

Install

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

install.packages("palr", 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("AustralianAntarcticDivision/palr")

Development version from AustralianAntarcticDivision/palr. 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-palr

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-palr

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

Health

CRAN checks

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Failing flavors

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Slowest check: 1.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Check history

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14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

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Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ australianantarcticdivision/palr

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5Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

123Commits

3Contributors

123 commits · Last activity 2026-07-16

Repository practices

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Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (1)

grDevices

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

knitr rmarkdown raster testthat covr stars viridis

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

1indirect

quadmesh inDAGO paletteer

Code & Tests

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Michael D. Sumner

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Michael D. Sumner

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (3)

R Core Team and contributors worldwide

Contributor · added in 0.1.0

Abigael Proctor

Contributor · added in 0.1.0

Tomas Remenyi

Contributor · added in 0.1.0

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-06-11
Total releases: 6 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 177 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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