% Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
% Please edit documentation in R/urban_agglomerations.R
\docType{data}
\name{urban_agglomerations}
\alias{urban_agglomerations}
\title{Major urban areas worldwide}
\format{Selected variables:
\itemize{
\item{year} {Year of population estimate}
\item{country_code} {Code of country}
\item{urban_agglomeration} {Name of the urban agglomeration}
\item{population_millions} {Estimated human population}
\item{geometry} {sfc_POINT}
}}
\source{
\url{https://esa.un.org/unpd/wup/CD-ROM/}
}
\usage{
urban_agglomerations
}
\description{
Dataset in a 'long' form from the United Nations
population division with projections up to 2050.
Includes only the top 30 largest areas by population at 5 year intervals.
}
\examples{
if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) {
library(sf)
data(urban_agglomerations)
}
# Code used to download the data:
\dontrun{
download.file(destfile = "WUP2014-F11a-30_Largest_Cities.xls",
url = "https://esa.un.org/unpd/wup/CD-ROM/WUP2014_XLS_CD_FILES/WUP2014-F11a-30_Largest_Cities.xls")
library(dplyr)
library(sf)
urban_agglomerations = readxl::read_excel("WUP2014-F11a-30_Largest_Cities.xls", skip = 16) \%>\%
st_as_sf(coords = c("Longitude", "Latitude"), crs = 4326)
names(urban_agglomerations) <- gsub(" ", "_", tolower(names(urban_agglomerations)) ) \%>\%
gsub("\\\\(|\\\\)", "", .)
devtools::use_data(urban_agglomerations, overwrite = TRUE)
file.remove("WUP2014-F11a-30_Largest_Cities.xls")
}
}
\keyword{datasets}
\keyword{sf}