wacolors

0.3.1

Colorblind-Friendly Palettes from Washington State

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4.4Kdownloads / year

18.2%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Cory McCartanFirst published 2021-05-172 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Color palettes taken from the landscapes and cities of Washington state. Colors were extracted from a set of photographs, and then combined to form a set of continuous and discrete palettes. Continuous palettes were designed to be perceptually uniform, while discrete palettes were chosen to maximize contrast at several different levels of overall brightness and saturation. Each palette has been evaluated to ensure colors are distinguishable by colorblind people.

Install

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

install.packages("wacolors", 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("CoryMcCartan/wacolors")

Development version from CoryMcCartan/wacolors. 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-wacolors

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-wacolors

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-wacolors

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.03

18.2%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 292 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 80%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

4.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,235 · ~12/day · ~368/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ corymccartan/wacolors

16Stars

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5Releases

50Commits

1Contributors

rcolorblind-friendly-palettescolor-palettedata-visualizationwashington-statecolorblind

50 commits · Last activity 2025-04-08 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2024-11-01 · 142026-07-07 · 16

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/corymccartan/wacolors on 2026-08-02.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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RStudio project

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0

Imports (4)

graphicsgrDevicesggplot2 scales

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

cli rstudioapi colorspace viridis knitr rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Cory McCartan

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Cory McCartan

Author, Maintainer

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Package metadata

First published: 2021-05-17
Total releases: 2 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0
Download size: 260 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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