Extend palette contract: Palette capabilities #5032
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The goal of this pull request is to improve the performance of checking for missing values when mapping values to colours using a palette.
Some palettes may be able to guarantee that they never return missing values as colours. For those palettes it does not make sense that we check if there are missing values in their output.
In this pull request, I use (although I don't depend on it):
Basically, that pull request extends the palette contract by adding attributes to it. One of those attributes is
may_return_NA
which, if set toFALSE
, then ggplot2 can assume the output of the palette has no missing values and skip the corresponding check.The relevant part of this pull request is:
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