.html plotGoogleMap does not load in shiny App when deployed on shinyapps.io

Question

I am trying to embed a plotGoogleMap in a shiny app online. Locally the app works perfectly, but when uploading via shinyapps to shinyapps.io the .html map does not load.

Any ideas how to solve this issue?

See my code below.

ui.R

library('markdown')
library('shiny')

shinyUI(navbarPage("plotGooleMaps in shinyapps",
                   mainPanel(uiOutput('mymap'))
                  )
       )

server.R

library('shiny')
library('plotGoogleMaps')

shinyServer(function(input, output){
  output$mymap <- renderUI({
    data(meuse)
    coordinates(meuse) = ~x+y
    proj4string(meuse) <- CRS("+init=epsg:28992")
    m <- plotGoogleMaps(meuse, filename = 'myMap1.html', openMap = F)
    tags$iframe(
      srcdoc = paste(readLines('myMap1.html'), collapse = '\n'),
      width = "900Px",
      height = "500Px"
      )
  })
})

deploy app with shinyapps

library('shinyapps')
setwd("~/working directory where ui.R and server.R are located locally")
deployApp()

This is the error log but I dont know what to conclude from it:

[blocked] The page at 'about:srcdoc' was loaded over HTTPS, but ran 
insecure content from 'http://maps.google.com/maps/api/js?sensor=false': 
this content should also be loaded over HTTPS. about:srcdoc:1

     Uncaught ReferenceError: google is not defined about:srcdoc:21

GET https://chamaoskurumi.shinyapps.io/TESTmapSHINY
           /_w_cf38cbc66a336eaf0ab8b4e184402cba949ec9bc0b5cc5c0/Legendf4d2427a4.png 
           404 (Not Found) about:srcdoc:3419

    Uncaught ReferenceError: google is not defined about:srcdoc:1989
    initializeabout:srcdoc:1989
    onloadabout:srcdoc:3411

gosz gosz · Accepted Answer · 2014-06-12T14:39:13

Someone on the shinyapps Forum solved my issue. http needs to be replaced by https in the map file. Codewise, this means that:

readLines('myMap1.html')

needs to be replaced by

gsub("http://maps.google.com/", 
     "https://maps.google.com/", 
     readLines('myMap1.html'), 
     fixed=TRUE)

I also contacted the author to fix this in the next update of the plotGoogleMaps package. Note that the legend does not function, but that seems to be another issue

.html plotGoogleMap does not load in shiny App when deployed on shinyapps.io

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