[R] grDevices::hcl.colors using two colours: Bug or Feature?

[Stevie Pederson]

Hi,

I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature, but after updating to Rv4.3, if
requesting two colours from hcl.colors() you now get the same colour twice.
This occurs for all palettes I've tried. My reprex:

hcl.colors(2, "Vik")
[1] "#F1F1F1" "#F1F1F1"

As I have multiple workflows I run repeatedly with A vs B comparisons, this
has just broken the visualisations in many of them. Obviously a
workaround is hcl.colors(3, "Vik")[c(1, 3)] but this seems rather
unintuitive.

Thanks in advance,

Stevie

sessionInfo()
R version 4.3.0 (2023-04-21)
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)
Running under: Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS

Matrix products: default
BLAS:   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/blas/libblas.so.3.9.0
LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3.9.0

locale:
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 [3] LC_TIME=en_AU.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_AU.UTF-8
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[11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_AU.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C

time zone: Australia/Adelaide
tzcode source: system (glibc)

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] compiler_4.3.0 tools_4.3.0

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