Add `RasterLayer` to `addLayersControl` in leaflet

Question

I have to RasterLayer -objects ( raster1 and raster2 ) in R. And I want to add them both to a leaflet-map. I also wanted to have the option to show or hide them. So I thought I'd add them with their names to the addLayersControl -option. But it doesn't work. It shows both layers at the same time and I can't hide them. So far my code looks like this. I think the problem is in how to add them to the addLayersControl -function.

leaflet() %>%
  addTiles() %>%
  addRasterImage(raster1, opacity = 0.3) %>% 
  addRasterImage(raster2, opacity = 0.3) %>% 
  addLayersControl(
    baseGroups = c("OSM (default)"),
    overlayGroups = c("raster1", "raster2"),
    options = layersControlOptions(collapsed = FALSE)
  )

I guess that's kind of easy,but I can't think of any sollution.

Answer 1

From the addLayersControl help :

overlayGroups
character vector where each element is the name of a group . The user can turn each overlay group on or off independently.

So you need groups. From the addRasterImage help :

group
the name of the group this raster image should belong to (see the same parameter under addTiles)

Your code need to be something like this:

leaflet() %>%
  addTiles() %>%
  addRasterImage(raster1, opacity = 0.3, group = 'raster1') %>% 
  addRasterImage(raster2, opacity = 0.3, group = 'raster2') %>% 
  addLayersControl(
    baseGroups = c("OSM (default)"),
    overlayGroups = c("raster1", "raster2"),
    options = layersControlOptions(collapsed = FALSE)
  )