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I would like to get longitude/latitude data for the cities in my dataframe and add as 2 columns in my frame. I'm new to R and I do not know how to do it. Could someone help me on this

My frame:

> data <- read.xlsx("example_city.xlsx", 1)
> data
        City Country
1  Stockholm  Sweden
2       Oslo  Norway
3       Rome   Italy
4       Rome   Italy
5  Stockholm  Sweden
6  Stockholm  Sweden
7      Paris  France
8      Paris  France
9    Hamburg Germany
10     Paris  France
11     Paris  France

Answer 1

With reference to your original question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20936263/use-ggplot2-to-plot-cities-on-a-map

# data 
cities <- sort(c(rep('Stockholm', 3), 'Oslo', 'Rome', 'Rome', 'Paris', rep('Bonn',10), 'Paris', 'Paris', 'Stockholm'))

# get frequencies
freq <- as.data.frame(table(cities))
library(plotrix)
freq$Freq <- rescale(freq$Freq, c(1,10)) # c(scale_min, scale_max)

# get cities latitude/longitude - kindly provided by google:
library(ggmap)
lonlat <- geocode(unique(cities)) 
cities <- cbind(freq, lonlat)

# get matches between names {maps} names and EU country names
library(maps)
eu <- c("Austria", "Belgium", "Bulgaria", "Croatia", "Cyprus", "Czech Republic", 
        "Denmark", "Estonia", "Finland", "France", "Germany", "Greece", 
        "Hungary", "Ireland", "Italy", "Latvia", "Lithuania", "Luxembourg", 
        "Malta", "Netherlands", "Poland", "Portugal", "Romania", "Slovakia", 
        "Slovenia", "Spain", "Sweden", "United Kingdom")
warning("No matches in database for ", paste(setdiff(eu, map_data('world')$region), collapse=", ")) 
europe <- map_data('world', region=eu)

# plot
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(europe, aes(x=long, y=lat, group=group)) +
  geom_polygon(fill="white", colour="black") +
  xlim(-20, 40) + ylim(25,75) +
  geom_point(data=cities, inherit.aes=F, aes(x=lon, y=lat, size=Freq), colour="red", alpha=.8) + 
  geom_text(data=cities, inherit.aes=F, aes(x=lon, y=lat, label=cities), vjust=1, colour="red", alpha=.5)