## Markers

Use markers to call out points on the map. Marker locations are expressed in latitude/longitude coordinates, and can either appear as icons or as circles. You can use SpatialPoints, SpatialPointsDataFrame, or a two-column numeric matrix (first column is longitude, second column is latitude) as data objects.

You can also use a data frame with latitude and longitude columns. You can explicitly tell the marker function which columns contain the coorinate data (e.g. addMarker(lng = ~Longitude, lat = ~Latitude)), or let the function look for columns named lat/latitude and lon/lng/long/longitude (case insensitive).

### Icon Markers

Icon markers are added using the addMarker function. Their default appearance is a dropped pin. As with most layer functions, the popup argument can be used to add a message to be displayed on click.

data(quakes)

# Show first 20 rows from the quakes dataset
leaflet(data = quakes[1:20,]) %>% addTiles() %>%
addMarkers(~long, ~lat, popup = ~as.character(mag))

#### Customizing Marker Icons

You can provide custom markers in one of several ways, depending on the scenario. For each of these ways, the icon can be provided as either a URL or as a file path.

For the simple case of applying a single icon to a set of markers, use makeIcon().

greenLeafIcon <- makeIcon(
iconUrl = "http://leafletjs.com/docs/images/leaf-green.png",
iconWidth = 38, iconHeight = 95,
iconAnchorX = 22, iconAnchorY = 94,
)

leaflet(data = quakes[1:4,]) %>% addTiles() %>%
addMarkers(~long, ~lat, icon = greenLeafIcon)

If you have several icons to apply that vary only by a couple of parameters (i.e. they share the same size and anchor points but have different URLs), use the icons() function. icons() performs similarly to data.frame(), in that any arguments that are shorter than the number of markers will be recycled to fit.

quakes1 <- quakes[1:10,]

leafIcons <- icons(
iconUrl = ifelse(quakes1$mag < 4.6, "http://leafletjs.com/docs/images/leaf-green.png", "http://leafletjs.com/docs/images/leaf-red.png" ), iconWidth = 38, iconHeight = 95, iconAnchorX = 22, iconAnchorY = 94, shadowUrl = "http://leafletjs.com/docs/images/leaf-shadow.png", shadowWidth = 50, shadowHeight = 64, shadowAnchorX = 4, shadowAnchorY = 62 ) leaflet(data = quakes1) %>% addTiles() %>% addMarkers(~long, ~lat, icon = leafIcons) Finally, if you have a set of icons that vary in multiple parameters, it may be more convenient to use the iconList() function. It lets you create a list of (named or unnamed) makeIcon() icons, and select from that list by position or name. # Make a list of icons. We'll index into it based on name. oceanIcons <- iconList( ship = makeIcon("ferry-18.png", "ferry-18@2x.png", 18, 18), pirate = makeIcon("danger-24.png", "danger-24@2x.png", 24, 24) ) # Some fake data df <- sp::SpatialPointsDataFrame( cbind( (runif(20) - .5) * 10 - 90.620130, # lng (runif(20) - .5) * 3.8 + 25.638077 # lat ), data.frame(type = factor( ifelse(runif(20) > 0.75, "pirate", "ship"), c("ship", "pirate") )) ) leaflet(df) %>% addTiles() %>% # Select from oceanIcons based on df$type
addMarkers(icon = ~oceanIcons[type])

#### Marker Clusters

When there are a large number of markers on a map, you can cluster them using the Leaflet.markercluster plug-in. To enable this plug-in, you can provide a list of options to the argument clusterOptions, e.g.

leaflet(quakes) %>% addTiles() %>% addMarkers(
clusterOptions = markerClusterOptions()
)

### Circle Markers

Circle markers are much like regular circles (see Lines and Shapes), except that their radius in onscreen pixels stays constant regardless of zoom level.

You can use their default appearance:

leaflet(df) %>% addTiles() %>% addCircleMarkers()

Or customize their color, radius, stroke, opacity, etc.

# Create a palette that maps factor levels to colors
pal <- colorFactor(c("navy", "red"), domain = c("ship", "pirate"))

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