Mapbox Access Token

To plot on Mapbox maps with Plotly you may need a Mapbox account and a public Mapbox Access Token. See our Mapbox Map Layers documentation for more information. If you're using a Chart Studio Enterprise server, please see additional instructions here.

Stamen Terrain Tile, no Token Needed

library(plotly)

quakes = read.csv('https://raw.githubusercontent.com/plotly/datasets/master/earthquakes-23k.csv')

fig <- quakes 
fig <- fig %>%
  plot_ly(
    type = 'densitymapbox',
    lat = ~Latitude,
    lon = ~Longitude,
    coloraxis = 'coloraxis',
    radius = 10) 
fig <- fig %>%
  layout(
    mapbox = list(
      style="stamen-terrain",
      center= list(lon=180)), coloraxis = list(colorscale = "Viridis"))

fig

Reference

See https://plotly.com/r/reference/#densitymapbox for more information and options!

What About Dash?

Dash for R is an open-source framework for building analytical applications, with no Javascript required, and it is tightly integrated with the Plotly graphing library.

Learn about how to install Dash for R at https://dashr.plot.ly/installation.

Everywhere in this page that you see fig, you can display the same figure in a Dash for R application by passing it to the figure argument of the Graph component from the built-in dashCoreComponents package like this:

library(plotly)

fig <- plot_ly() 
# fig <- fig %>% add_trace( ... )
# fig <- fig %>% layout( ... ) 

library(dash)
library(dashCoreComponents)
library(dashHtmlComponents)

app <- Dash$new()
app$layout(
    htmlDiv(
        list(
            dccGraph(figure=fig) 
        )
     )
)

app$run_server(debug=TRUE, dev_tools_hot_reload=FALSE)