if/when they migrate Shiny to utilize Leaflet 1.x, i'd be willing to take a shot at proposing a formal integration
https://github.com/rstudio/leaflet/issues/357
in the meantime, you could try the technique described here.
for leaflet 0.7.x, just found this: https://bhaskarvk.github.io/leaflet.esri/
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