leaflet

Overview

About

Maintained by Garrick Aden-BuieFirst published 2015-06-2415 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Create and customize interactive maps using the 'Leaflet' JavaScript library and the 'htmlwidgets' package. These maps can be used directly from the R console, from 'RStudio', in Shiny applications and R Markdown documents.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("leaflet", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("rstudio/leaflet")

Development version from rstudio/leaflet. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-leaflet

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-leaflet

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-leaflet

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 2.3 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.20

53.2%

Coverage · measured lines

99%

Documentation · exports

16

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 177 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 73%
Documented parameters: 84%
Return-value docs: 33%
References docs: 4%

Downloads

1.5M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #278 · ~4K/day · ~121.6K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

136.8K30 days

463.5K90 days

1.5M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on14.4K r2u2 autocran13.2K conda_forge197 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ rstudio/leaflet

840Stars

505Forks

300Open issues

19Open PRs

12Releases

1,122Commits

43Contributors

rleaflet-mapspatialgis

1,122 commits · Last activity 2025-10-08 · +0.1% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-07-23 · 8232026-07-30 · 840

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/leaflet on 2026-07-31.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdrevdep/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Show all practices

Governance and community (2)

Issue templatesPR template

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

25 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (16)

crosstalk htmltools htmlwidgets jquerylib leaflet.providers magrittrmethodspng raster RColorBrewer rlang scales sf (>= 0.9-6)statsviridisLite xfun

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

knitr maps purrr R6 RJSONIO rmarkdown s2 shiny (>= 1.0.0)sp terra testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

223direct

47indirect

and 175 more packages.

People & History

People (22)

Maintainer (1)

Garrick Aden-Buie

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.2.3

Authors (5)

Garrick Aden-Buie

Author, Maintainer · added in 2.2.3

Joe Cheng

Author

Bhaskar Karambelkar

Author · added in 1.1.0

Barret Schloerke

Author · added in 2.0.0

Yihui Xie

Author

Contributors (15)

Benjamin Becquet

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.0

Brandon Copeland

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.0

Daniel Montague

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.0

Joerg Dietrich

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.0

Kartena AB

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.0

L. Voogdt

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.0

Leaflet contributors

Contributor

Mapbox

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.0

Show 7 more contributors

Michael Bostock

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.0

Norkart AS

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.0

Robert Kajic

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.0

Vladimir Agafonkin

Contributor, Copyright holder

Kent Johnson

Contributor · added in 1.1.0

Kenton Russell

Contributor · added in 1.1.0

Hadley Wickham

Contributor

Copyright holders (13)

Benjamin Becquet

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.0

Brandon Copeland

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.0

Daniel Montague

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.0

Joerg Dietrich

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.0

Kartena AB

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.0

L. Voogdt

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.0

Mapbox

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.0

Michael Bostock

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.0

Show 5 more copyright holders

Norkart AS

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.0

Robert Kajic

Contributor, Copyright holder · added in 1.1.0

Vladimir Agafonkin

Contributor, Copyright holder

CloudMade

Copyright holder

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 2.2.0

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 2.2.0

Listed in earlier versions (4)

Leaflet Providers contributors

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 2.0.2

RStudio

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 2.1.2

jQuery Foundation and contributors

no longer listed · 1.0.0 to 2.1.2

Jacob Toye

no longer listed · 1.1.0

Package Timeline

15 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.2.3Latest
2025-09-04 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2.2.2
2024-03-26 · diff ↗
2.2.1
2023-11-13 · diff ↗
2.2.0
2023-08-31 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.1.2
2023-03-10 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.1.1
2022-03-24 · diff ↗
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2022-02-16 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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2021-01-07 · diff ↗
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2019-11-16 · diff ↗

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
2.0.2
2018-08-27 · diff ↗
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2018-06-04 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
2.0.0
2018-04-21 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.1.0
2017-02-21 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.0.1
2016-02-27 · diff ↗
1.0.0
2015-06-24
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-06-24
Total releases: 15 / 11 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 266 KB / 3 files
Download size: 1.9 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Dynamic Visualizations and Interactive Graphics Analysis of Spatial Data

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