unikn 0.5.0

This release of unikn (v0.5.0) adds new functionality and fixes some bugs. [2022-08-15]

Changes since last release:

Major changes

Add a simcol() function to find similar colors. [2022-08-10]
Add an ac() function as a flexible wrapper of grDevices::adjustcolor(). [2022-01-02]
Add a shades_of() function to conveniently get n shades of a color. [2021-04-06]

Add a plot argument to grepal() and simcol() to visualize results. [2022-08-12]
Add a distinct argument to usecol() and simcol() to remove visual duplicates. [2022-08-11]
Add utility functions for obtaining color transparency values (get_alpha()), quantifying color distance (col_distance()), and detecting and filtering visual duplicates (col_distinct()). [2022-08-11]
Add an x_layout argument to control horizontal positions of text labels (e.g., by numeric increments, centering, right-adjusted). [2021-04-24]

The current development version of unikn (0.5.0.9001+) is available at https://github.com/hneth/unikn/.

This release of unikn (v0.4.0) adds new functionality, tweaks aesthetics, and fixes a bug. [2021-03-27]

Changes since last release:

Add a grepal() function to match patterns in the names of colors() or color palettes. [2020-12-18]
Change color sequence of pal_unikn_pref to increase contrast between adjacent colors. [2020-09-04]

Add mar_note argument to seecol() for margin note option. [2021-01-05]
Add two new vignettes (on “Color recipes” and “Institutional colors”). [2020-12-18]
Fine-tune aesthetics of theme_unikn() and theme_grau() for use with ggplot2. [2020-08-27]
Add Travis support for GitHub builds. [2020-08-25]

Adjust display of HEX codes in seecol():
Show HEX codes on two alternating lines (or with diagonal labels) when length of codes exceed line length(s). [2020-12-26]

This release of unikn (v0.3.0) adds functionality and fixes some bugs. [2020-08-24]

Changes since last release:

Add pal_names argument to seecol() function to allow re-labeling color palettes and colors. [2020-08-22]

Bug fix: Use seecol() to flexibly plot color palettes provided by name or incomplete names. [2020-08-20]
Revise documentation of seecol() and usecol() functions.
Clean up and update online documentation.

This version of unikn (v0.2.0) is a maintenance release, adding some functionality, but primarily fixing bugs. [2019-09-25]

Changes since last release:

New functionality:

Add a newpal() function for defining new color palettes (as a named vector or data frame). [2019-07-05]
Add a theme_unikn() function to provide a basic ggplot2 theme. [2019-06-20]

Changes in existing functionality:

Add a col_bg argument to the seecol() function to allow setting background color. [2019-09-24]
Add a title argument to the seecol() function to allow overwriting the default title (created when title = NA). [2019-07-17]
Add lwd_brd argument to the seecol() function to allow setting the linewidth of shapes (and setting sensible defaults in combination with col_brd). [2019-07-18]

Fix an error in seecol() and usecol() that prevented using functions in other packages (by requiring list of palettes). [2019-09-18]
Remove packages not needed for running unikn from list of suggested packages. [2019-07-20]
Prevent showing duplicate color names in seecol(), due to searching both the current set of color palettes and base R colors. Different names for the same color are now separated by a forward slash (/), duplicates are removed before naming. [2019-06-27]
Fix an error in isHexCol() which failed to recognize hexadecimal color values starting with lowercase letters. [2019-06-27]

Initial release of unikn (v0.1.0) on CRAN: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=unikn. [2019-06-15]

[File NEWS.md updated on 2022-08-15.]