[R] white in the default palette

[Paul Murrell]

Hi


> [I'd already sent this message earlier (Apr 6) but as I had no response
> and I still see that it is the case in R1.5 I thought I'd try again]
> 
> I recently encountered a problem (actually missed some data) because
> "white" is one of colours in the "default" palette and that does not
> show up to well on my transparent (on white background). Of course it is
> 
> easily fixed but I think white should not be a default colour.
> 
> > palette("default")
> > palette()
> [1] "black" "red" "green3" "blue" "cyan" "magenta" "yellow"
> 
> [8] "white"
> > par()$bg
> [1] "transparent"


Apologies for not responding to your first email on this topic.

I think there is fairly general agreement that the default colour
palette that R provides is not terribly clever, and having "white" as
one of the defaults is possibly the least clever part :)

We are currently discussing the possibility of providing some more
sensible default palettes, but these are a little way off yet.  

In the meantime, are there any objections to changing "white" to "grey"
in the default palette?

Paul
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