[R] Palettes {grDevices} - wrong number of colors returned?

[Achim Zeileis]

Just for the record: Duncan and Martin (Maechler) improved my proposed 
patch and Martin committed it to R-devel now.

Thank you, Sigbert, for reporting the issue!

On Thu, 23 Feb 2023, Achim Zeileis wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Feb 2023, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
>
>> On 23/02/2023 6:09 a.m., Achim Zeileis wrote:
>>> Duncan,
>>> 
>>> thanks for your feedback. I just received your response after sending out
>>> mine. You came to the same conclusion. Should I prepare a patch and send
>>> it to you so that you can also have a look? Or view Bugzilla?
>> 
>> Copying Sigbert's message to Bugzilla is a good idea so it can be referred 
>> to from the NEWS entry.
>
> Good point. I've written a new description, though, because the are even more 
> problems with the alpha vector handling than suggested by Sigbert.
>
> The bug report is now at: https://bugs.R-project.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18476
>
>> If you want to submit a patch along with it, let me know and I'll take a 
>> look at it.
>
> There is both a patch and a test script in the attachments of the bug report.
>
> Let me know if something needs further fixing.
>
> Best wishes,
> Achim
>
>