I'm using Rmarkdown to make a report with mapdeck which uses javascript libraries (deckgl,mapboxgl, etc) to create maps.
Once I generate the map object I can scroll and zoom around and inspect the window. What'd I'd like to do is after I scroll and zoom, extract the current zoom and center location from the browser console/inspect window so I can hard code that as a starting point. As it is, I'm constantly guessing and checking (lots of rerendering the map) a starting location and zoom level to fine tune the starting point which seems unnecessary.
I found in the console mapboxgl.getZoom
but that comes back as undefined. Is it possible to get that info from the console?
Use show_view_state = TRUE
to get a live overlay of the view's "state"
mapdeck(show_view_state = TRUE)