Introduction

This project corresponds to the second week assignment of the Developing Data Products Coursera course by Johns Hopkins University. The goal of this project is to create interactive web pages using the R Markdown solution and the R package Leaflet.

Andrea Palladio and his beautiful villas

The Veneto region in Italy hosts many beautiful villas (see Palladian villas of the Veneto) built by the famoust architect Andrea Palladio.

The city of Vicenza hosts 23 buildings by Andrea Palladio; below the map shows some of the most famous villas in Veneto.

 

Recall the leaflet package

library(leaflet)
## Warning: package 'leaflet' was built under R version 3.5.3

 

Show the map

villas_map = leaflet() %>%
    addTiles() %>%
    addMarkers(lat=45.5316, lng=11.56, popup="Villa Almerico Capra, 'La Rotonda'") %>%
    addMarkers(lat=45.5652, lng=11.5469, popup="Villa Trissino") %>%
    addMarkers(lat=45.6038, lng=11.9991, popup="Villa Cornaro") %>%
    addMarkers(lat=45.8055, lng=11.98, popup="Villa Barbaro") %>%
    addMarkers(lat=45.4352, lng=12.2002, popup="Villa Foscari, 'La Malcontenta'") %>%
    addMarkers(lat=45.2269, lng=11.4686, popup="Villa Pisani") %>%
    addMarkers(lat=45.03, lng=11.6461, popup="Villa Badoer, 'La Badoera'") %>%
    addMarkers(lat=45.7119, lng=11.9897, popup="Villa Emo") %>%
    addMarkers(lat=45.2816, lng=11.5008, popup="Villa Pojana") %>%
    addMarkers(lat=45.3105, lng=11.5866, popup="Villa Saraceno")
villas_map