randomcoloR

1.1.0.1

Generate Attractive Random Colors

14packages depend

69Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ron AmmarFirst published 2016-03-293 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Simple methods to generate attractive random colors. The random colors are from a wrapper of 'randomColor.js' https://github.com/davidmerfield/randomColor. In addition, it also generates optimally distinct colors based on k-means (inspired by 'IWantHue' https://github.com/medialab/iwanthue).

Install

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

install.packages("randomcoloR", 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("ronammar/randomcoloR")

Development version from ronammar/randomcoloR. 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-randomcolor

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-randomcoloR

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-randomcoloR

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

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

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

Code health

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Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

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Check history

NOTE2026-03-10
9 OK · 5 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 33% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 67%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

69K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,983 · ~189/day · ~5.7K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ronammar/randomcolor

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40 commits · Last activity 2020-05-03 · 0% stars, 30d

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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Imports (9)

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Reverse dependencies

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Package metadata

First published: 2016-03-29
Total releases: 3 / 10 yrs
License: CC0
Download size: 5.8 KB
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