'Is there a way to display an imagery timeline in an rmarkdown leaflet html widgit?

I have an R markdown html document with a leaflet map. The base layer for the leaflet map is ESRI.WorldImagery. This base layer doesn't indicate anywhere the date upon which the imagery (e.g. aerial photograph or satellite) was acquired. It's possible that different imagery tiles represent different snap shots in time.

I would like to at least be able to tell my users the date or year in which the imagery they are viewing was acquired. Better yet would be to show an interactive timeline slider, analogous to the historical imagery timeline slider in google earth.

Does anyone know if this is possible in R leaflet?



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