dkahle / dkahle/ggmap

Allow environment = emptyenv() to reduce the size of serialized ggmaps

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Description

I've noticed serializing simple plots e.g.

```R
> object.size(serialize(ggmap(get_map('Europe', zoom=4)),NULL))
148010056 bytes
```
Leads to very large R objects > 140MB

This can make it quite annoying when transferring these objects over a network.
What causes such crazy sizes?

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