Mapbox won't render in Quarto

[walkerke]

At the moment, Quarto can't accommodate JS libraries served over a CDN because it expects a local resource path. Follow up on options for Mapbox GL JS re: licensing and how I can handle this.

[walkerke]

Following this discussion: https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions/10325

Also finding out if Mapbox GL JS can be bundled in the package from Mapbox which would solve the problem, so this issue's resolution is TBD.

[walkerke]

Now tracking at https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/10339

[wiesehahn]

so its still valid that we cant render mapgl in quarto, right? The title here suggests that this is true for Mapbox, but can it be done with maplibre? I get the same error when trying to render maplibre

Error in FUN(X[[i]], ...) : 
  Dependency mapbox-gl-draw 1.4.3 is not disk-based
Calls: .main ... dependencies_from_render -> html_dependencies_as_string -> lapply -> FUN
Execution halted

Is there any option to make this possible for maplibre (as I guess the license problem does not apply here)

[walkerke]

@wiesehahn yes, at the moment.

I was hoping the Quarto team would fix on their end as I prefer to pull in the assets via CDN given the way Mapbox GL JS is licensed. However it doesn't seem like the issue is high-priority.

What I can do for now is set up the MapLibre dependencies locally so it can be used in Quarto docs.

[walkerke]

@wiesehahn I've switched to local dependencies for MapLibre and successfully rendered a Quarto doc with all of those dependencies used. Install from GitHub and try this out:

---
title: "MapLibre Quarto test"
format: html
editor: visual
---

## MapLibre test

Let's try out MapLibre in a Quarto doc with a draw control and a geocoder, using all local dependencies:

```{r}
library(mapgl)

maplibre() |> 
  add_draw_control(freehand = TRUE) |> 
  add_geocoder_control()

[wiesehahn]

Great! thanks