R: geocoding utility

getGeoCode {RgoogleMaps} | R Documentation

## geocoding utility

### Description

Geocode your data using, R, JSON and Google Maps' Geocoding APIs see http://allthingsr.blogspot.de/2012/01/geocode-your-data-using-r-json-and.html and

### Usage

    getGeoCode(gcStr, JSON = FALSE, verbose = 0)

### Arguments

`gcStr` | adddress to geocode
`JSON` | use the JSON protocol. If FALSE, we do not have to load additional libraries
`verbose` | level of verbosity

### Value

returns lat/lon for address

### Author(s)

Markus Loecher

### Examples

    getGeoCode("1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA")
    getGeoCode("Brooklyn")
    #You can run this on the entire column of a data frame or a data table:
    DF = cbind.data.frame(address=c("Berlin,Germany", "Princeton,NJ",
              "cadillac+mountain+acadia+national+park"), lat = NA, lon = NA)
    DF <- with(DF, data.frame(address, t(sapply(DF$address, getGeoCode))))

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