`colors` argument to `add_trace` is ignored

This code

library(plotly)

x <- seq(1, 10)
y <- x ^ 1.5
color <- c("a", "b", "c", "d", "e",
           "f", "g", "h", "i", "j")

plot_ly(type = "scatter", mode = "markers",
        x = x, y = y,
        color = color,
        colors = "Dark2",
        mode = "markers")

works as expected and produces the following plot:

This one:

library(plotly)

x <- seq(1, 10)
y <- x ^ 1.5
color <- c("a", "b", "c", "d", "e",
           "f", "g", "h", "i", "j")

plt <- plot_ly(type = "scatter", mode = "markers")
plt <- add_trace(plt, x = x, y = y,
                 color = color,
                 colors = "Dark2",
                 mode = "markers")
plt

generates the warning

Warning messages:
1: In RColorBrewer::brewer.pal(N, "Set2") :
  n too large, allowed maximum for palette Set2 is 8
Returning the palette you asked for with that many colors

2: In RColorBrewer::brewer.pal(N, "Set2") :
  n too large, allowed maximum for palette Set2 is 8
Returning the palette you asked for with that many colors

and produces the following plot:

The colors argument is ignored.

The same happens when specifying a custom colour palette with colorRampPalette from RColorBrewer:

library(RColorBrewer)
library(plotly)

x <- seq(1, 10)
y <- x ^ 1.5
color <- c("a", "b", "c", "d", "e",
           "f", "g", "h", "i", "j")
colors <- colorRampPalette(brewer.pal(8, "Dark2"))(10)

plt <- plot_ly(type = "scatter", mode = "markers")
plt <- add_trace(plt, x = x, y = y,
                 color = color,
                 colors = colors,
                 mode = "markers")
plt

As far as I can see, this makes it impossible to programmatically build a plot with add_trace and also choose the colour palette at the same time.

Inizia riproducendo i due esempi di plot_ly e add_trace presenti nell’issue, quindi traccia il modo in cui l’entry point add_trace gestisce color e colors. Il lavoro è completato quando add_trace rispetta sia la palette denominata sia l’output personalizzato di colorRampPalette, senza generare l’avviso sulla palette segnalato.