How do I add popup labels to polygons in the timelineOptions of leaftime package in R?

In the code below, I am trying to use the leaftime package to make a map with a time slider. The idea is to color the countries/regions as the time moves from start date to end date. In addition, I would like the names of the countries (from the column Country) to pop up as labels while hovering over them (after it has been colored). I have looked online, and the examples I find mainly describe how to do this for point data (using the poinToLayer). I would appreciate any ideas how to implement this for polygon or multipolygon layers.


library(sf)
library(leaflet)
library(leaftime)


`# Creating base data frame with spatial polygons and country names`

power <- data.frame(
  "Country" = c("Germany", "Spain", "United Kingdom", "Italy", "United States", 
                "Thailand", "Singapore", "Japan", "France", "Australia"),
  "start" = seq.Date(as.Date("2015-01-01"), by = "day", length.out = 10),
  "end" = rep(as.Date("2015-01-10"), 10)
)


`# Sample polygons (WKT format) for 10 countries (simplified)`


country_polygons <- c(
  "POLYGON ((13.0 52.0, 13.1 52.0, 13.1 52.1, 13.0 52.1, 13.0 52.0))", # Germany
  "POLYGON ((-3.0 40.0, -3.1 40.0, -3.1 40.1, -3.0 40.1, -3.0 40.0))", # Spain
  "POLYGON ((-0.1 51.5, 0.0 51.5, 0.0 51.6, -0.1 51.6, -0.1 51.5))", # UK
  "POLYGON ((12.0 41.9, 12.1 41.9, 12.1 42.0, 12.0 42.0, 12.0 41.9))", # Italy
  "POLYGON ((-74.0 40.7, -74.1 40.7, -74.1 40.8, -74.0 40.8, -74.0 40.7))", # USA
  "POLYGON ((100.5 13.7, 100.6 13.7, 100.6 13.8, 100.5 13.8, 100.5 13.7))", # Thailand
  "POLYGON ((103.8 1.3, 103.9 1.3, 103.9 1.4, 103.8 1.4, 103.8 1.3))", # Singapore
  "POLYGON ((139.7 35.6, 139.8 35.6, 139.8 35.7, 139.7 35.7, 139.7 35.6))", # Japan
  "POLYGON ((2.3 48.8, 2.4 48.8, 2.4 48.9, 2.3 48.9, 2.3 48.8))", # France
  "POLYGON ((144.9 -37.8, 145.0 -37.8, 145.0 -37.7, 144.9 -37.7, 144.9 -37.8))" # Australia
)


`# Converting polygons to sf objects`


power$geometry <- st_as_sfc(country_polygons, crs = 4326)


`# Converting the data frame to an sf object`


power_sf <- st_as_sf(power, sf_column_name = "geometry")


`# Adding the timeline to the leaflet map with country labels using the JS function`


leaflet_map %>%
  addTimeline( data=x,
               sliderOpts = sliderOptions(
                 formatOutput = htmlwidgets::JS(
                   "function(date) {return new Date(date).toDateString()}
      "),
                 position = "bottomright",
                 step = 50,
                 duration = 3000,
                 showTicks = FALSE
               ),
               timelineOpts = timelineOptions(pointToLayer = htmlwidgets::JS(
                 "
        function(data, latlng) {
          return L.polygon(latlng, {
            color: 'black',
            fillColor: 'lightblue',
            fillOpacity: 0.5
          }).bindTooltip(
            'Country: ' + data.properties.Country + '<br/>' +
            'Start: ' + data.properties.start + '<br/>' +
            'End: ' + data.properties.end,
            {permanent: false}
          ).openTooltip()
        }
        "
               ),styleOptions = styleOptions(
                 radius = 3,
                 color = 'red',
                 stroke = F,
                 fill = TRUE,
                 fillColor = NULL,
                 fillOpacity = NULL),
                           ))

The above code only generates the map but not popping labels.