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]

Minor changes

• 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]

Bug fixes

• Fix some bugs in README and vignettes. [2021-04-29]
• slide() now uses the dim argument. [2021-04-24]

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