Leaflet is an open-source JavaScript library for interactive maps. This R package makes it easy to create Leaflet maps from R.

library(leaflet)
m = leaflet() %>% tileLayer()
m  # a map with the default OSM tile layer

m = m %>% setView(c(42.0285, -93.65), zoom = 17)
m

m %>% mapPopup(42.0285, -93.65, 'Here is the <b>Department of Statistics</b>, ISU')

This package is not on CRAN yet, and you can install it from Github:

devtools::install_github('rstudio/leaflet')

This package is licensed to you under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or later.

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