Change color of Leaflet dropped pin marker

Question

I am trying to change the color of the dropped pin marker in leaflet in R. It appears to only come in a default color with the white dot in the middle. I have tried using makeAwesomeIcon, but this only allows you to select from a short list of possible markerColor (see this link: Change color of leaflet marker). I need to be able to use any hex color code and specifically need to use the dropped pin icon. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

This answer does what you're looking for, through the creation of a new css style for the marker https://stackoverflow.com/a/40870439/6103550