R for Driving Directions?
Driving Directions from R
There is no reason that maps with driving directions cannot be produced in R. Given the directions api from Google, it should be doable. As it happens, I was surprised how easy it was. Let me try to map a simple A to B location. First, to the locations; I will specify two. It is possible to geolocate addresses for this also, I happened to have the GPS coordinates in hand.
InNOut <- data.frame(lat = 45.01182, lng=-123.01566, popup = "In-N-Out, Keizer")
WU <- data.frame(lat = 44.9366627941527, lng = -123.030147262156, popup = "Willamette University")With these coordinates in mind, I need to acquire the directions, and routes based on those directions. The mapsapi package interacts with the various google maps APIs. I have yet to figure out how to effectively hide the key in these API calls so I am copying the code chunk but will work with the data that I obtained from the following code. The first step is to request directions. mp_directions requires an origin and a destination in one of a few forms. You can feed a character string [vector of length 1], a numeric vector of length 2 [lon, lat], a matrix with one row and two columns, same as above, or an sf/sfc point layer with only one feature. While I have not specified them, we can also require waypoints, choose a mode other than the default (driving), and get multiple alternatives or only a single set of directions. Here, I will ask for alternatives.
library(mapsapi)
doc <- mp_directions(
origin = c(WU$lng,WU$lat),
destination = c(InNOut$lng,InNOut$lat),
alternatives = TRUE, key=key, quiet=TRUE)
route <- mp_get_routes(doc)What does the output of this look like?
load("data/doc.RData")
doc## $node
## <pointer: (nil)>
##
## $doc
## <pointer: (nil)>
##
## attr(,"class")
## [1] "xml_document" "xml_node"mp_directions returns xml from the Directions API consisting of a status report, the routes, and the beginning and endpoints.
route## alternative_id leg_id summary distance_m distance_text
## 1-1 1 1 Broadway St and River Rd N 9830 6.1 mi
## 2-1 2 1 River Rd N 10730 6.7 mi
## 3-1 3 1 Cherry Ave NE and River Rd N 9630 6.0 mi
## duration_s duration_text duration_in_traffic_s duration_in_traffic_text
## 1-1 1164 19 mins NA NA
## 2-1 1165 19 mins NA NA
## 3-1 1167 19 mins NA NA
## departure_time arrival_time
## 1-1 <NA> <NA>
## 2-1 <NA> <NA>
## 3-1 <NA> <NA>
## geometry
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Mean.Lat <- mean(c(WU$lat,InNOut$lat))
Mean.Lon <- mean(c(WU$lng,InNOut$lng))Now I have a center to view the map. Let’s build a map using Leaflet. First, call the library. Second, initiate a new Leaflet. Add tiles to it. Define the view using my average coordinates. Add a marker for Willamette and for In-N-Out with popup text. Finally, add the routes.
library(leaflet)
m <- leaflet() %>%
addTiles() %>%
setView(lat=Mean.Lat,lng=Mean.Lon, zoom = 12) %>%
addMarkers(lat=WU$lat, lng=WU$lng, popup = WU$popup) %>%
addMarkers(lat=InNOut$lat, lng=InNOut$lng, popup = InNOut$popup) %>%
addPolylines(data = route)What does it look like?
m