Projecting UK Cities on map using R Leaflet

Summary

Objective of this excercise is to create a web page using R Markdown that features UK Cities on map created with Leaflet.

Data Source

UK Cities data is taken/ filtered from world cities data provided by Maxmind to granularity of postcode level. More details can be found at https://www.maxmind.com/en/free-world-cities-database.

setwd("~/workspace/leaflet")
library(leaflet)

# Load data
ukcity <- read.csv("ukcitiespop.csv")
head(ukcity)

##   Country          City    AccentCity Region Population      Lat      Long
## 1      gb      abberley      Abberley     Q4         NA 52.30000 -2.366667
## 2      gb      abberton      Abberton     E4         NA 51.83333  0.916667
## 3      gb      abberton      Abberton     Q4         NA 52.18333 -2.016667
## 4      gb abbess roding Abbess Roding     E4         NA 51.78333  0.266667
## 5      gb  abbey-cwmhir  Abbey-Cwmhir     Y8         NA 52.33333 -3.400000
## 6      gb    abbey dore    Abbey Dore     F7         NA 51.96667 -2.900000

UK Cities

ukcity %>% 
  leaflet() %>% 
  addTiles() %>% 
  addMarkers(clusterOption=markerClusterOptions())

## Assuming 'Long' and 'Lat' are longitude and latitude, respectively