biopalette: Image-Inspired Color Palettes for Biomedical Visualization

Provides a curated collection of image-inspired color palettes for biomedical visualization. The palettes are organized as qualitative, sequential, or diverging scales and include documented source context and intended use. The package provides functions to retrieve, inspect, preview, and apply these palettes in base R and 'ggplot2' graphics, together with utilities for working with palette definitions.

Version: 0.2.2
Depends: R (≥ 4.1)
Imports: cli, ggplot2, jsonlite, scales
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-09-02
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.biopalette (may not be active yet)
Author: Yibin Zhou ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Yibin Zhou <evanzhou.bio at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/evanbio/biopalette/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/evanbio/biopalette, https://evanbio.github.io/biopalette/
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: biopalette results

Documentation:

Reference manual: biopalette.html , biopalette.pdf
Vignettes: Get started with biopalette (source, R code)
Installing biopalette (source, R code)
Palettes included in biopalette (source, R code)
From palette to plot with Tessera (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: biopalette_0.2.2.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): not available, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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