RgoogleMaps (version 1.4.3)

getGeoCode: 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

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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

Examples

# NOT RUN {

if (0){


  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))))


}


# }