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))))

[Package RgoogleMaps version 1.4.2 Index]