How to access polygon information from shapefile leaflet R - r

Question

I made a map of London using https://data.london.gov.uk/dataset/statistical-gis-boundary-files-london and shiny and R and leaflet. I added an attribute to the shapefile, and now want to be able to highlight the shapefile and print information when the user clicks on a specific polygon.
I looked at shiny leaflet ploygon click event, Marker mouse click event in R leaflet for shiny, and How to implement input$map_marker_click correctly?, and know I need to use ObserveEvent, but have not been able to implement it correctly.
My code is:
library(shiny)
library("rgdal")
library(leaflet)
shapeData <- readOGR('statistical-gis-boundaries-london/ESRI/LSOA_2004_London_Low_Resolution.shp')
shapeData <- spTransform(shapeData, CRS("+proj=longlat +ellps=GRS80"))
shapeData$col=sample(c('red','yellow','green'),nrow(shapeData),1) #add some value you want to map
borough=read.csv('BoroughCentres.csv')
ui=fluidPage(
fluidPage(
leafletOutput('LSOAMap'),
p(),
selectInput('LANAME','Borough',
choices = unique(shapeData$LA_NAME))
)
)
server=function(input, output) {
output$LSOAMap <- renderLeaflet({
llong=borough[borough$Borough==input$LANAME,3]
llat=borough[borough$Borough==input$LANAME,4]
bor=subset(shapeData,shapeData$LA_NAME %in% input$LANAME)
leaflet() %>% addTiles() %>%
setView(lng = llong, lat=llat,zoom=13) %>%
addPolygons(data=bor,weight=2,col = 'black',fillOpacity = 0.2,fillColor = bor$col,
highlightOptions = highlightOptions(color='white',weight=1,
bringToFront = TRUE)) %>%
addMarkers(lng = llong,lat=llat,popup=input$LANAME)
})
}
shinyApp(ui, server)
I tried adding, along with session as an argument:
observe({
click <- input$map_marker_click
if (is.null(click))
return()
print(click)
text <-
paste("Lattitude ",
click$lat,
"Longtitude ",
click$lng)
leafletProxy(mapId = "LSOAMap") %>%
clearPopups() %>%
addPopups(dat = click, lat = ~lat, lng = ~lng, popup = text)
# map$clearPopups()
# map$showPopup(click$latitude, click$longtitude, text)
})
to no avail.
What I want is that when a user highlights a specific shape, text pops up and shows the corresponding STWARDNAME from the shapefile.
the first few lines of borough are:
> head(borough)
Borough LA_CODE long lat
1 City of London E09000001 -0.09194991 51.51814
2 Barking and Dagenham E09000002 0.13064556 51.54764
3 Barnet E09000003 -0.20416711 51.61086
4 Bexley E09000004 0.13459320 51.45981
5 Brent E09000005 -0.26187070 51.55697
6 Bromley E09000006 0.03734663 51.38836

Answer 1

You are pretty close but have a few syntax issues which I think are tripping you up.
First you are not properly selecting what STWARDNAME you want from your SPDF so there is no way for R to know which one to show. I added this line
popup = subset(shapeData, LA_NAME == input$LANAME )$STWARDNAME
Also you were passing highlightOptions as an option when it should just be highlight
Finally since you were more interested in mouseover for a polygon, I removed the popup marker and changed to highlight so that the name is shown when you mouseover the polygon:
leaflet() %>% addTiles() %>%
setView(lng = llong, lat=llat,zoom=13) %>%
addPolygons(data=bor,weight=2,col = 'black',fillOpacity = 0.2,fillColor = bor$col,
highlight = highlightOptions(color='white',weight=1,
bringToFront = TRUE), label= popup)
Which yields:

Answer 2

#Stedy answer was brilliant, and better, I just went a different way. I added in a layer id vector, and a popup decision to find the STWARDNAME
lid=as.vector(row.names(bor#data))
pu=bor#data[row.names(bor#data)==lid,'STWARDNAME']
, then added in two arguments while making the map layerId = lid,popup = pu,. The pop up showed when the user clicked on an area
bor=subset(shapeData,shapeData$LA_NAME %in% input$LANAME)
lid=as.vector(row.names(bor#data))
pu=bor#data[row.names(bor#data)==lid,'STWARDNAME']
leaflet() %>% addTiles() %>%
setView(lng = llong, lat=llat,zoom=13) %>%
addPolygons(data=bor,weight=2,col = 'black',fillOpacity = 0.2,fillColor = bor$col,
layerId = lid,popup = pu,
highlightOptions = highlightOptions(color='white',weight=1,
bringToFront = TRUE)) %>%
addMarkers(lng = llong,lat=llat,popup=input$LANAME)