This document demonstrates differences between color mapping in scales vs. Leaflet when the number of colors is 2. (For all other numbers of colors, the results should be the same between scales and Leaflet.)
Sequential
Colors:
scales::col_factor("Blues", NULL)
Values:
1:7
Colors:
scales::col_factor("Blues", NULL)
Values:
1:2
Colors:
leaflet::colorFactor("Blues", NULL)
Values:
1:2
Divergent
Colors:
scales::col_factor("Spectral", NULL)
Values:
1:7
Colors:
scales::col_factor("Spectral", NULL)
Values:
1:2
Colors:
leaflet::colorFactor("Spectral", NULL)
Values:
1:2
Colors:
scales::col_factor("RdYlBu", NULL)
Values:
1:7
Colors:
scales::col_factor("RdYlBu", NULL)
Values:
1:2
Colors:
leaflet::colorFactor("RdYlBu", NULL)
Values:
1:2
Qualitative
Colors:
scales::col_factor("Accent", NULL)
Values:
1:7
Colors:
scales::col_factor("Accent", NULL)
Values:
1:2
Colors:
leaflet::colorFactor("Accent", NULL)
Values:
1:2