street2coordinates: Converts a street address into useful geographic information.

In RDSTK: An R wrapper for the Data Science Toolkit API

Description

This function returns a host of geographic information related to a given street address.

Usage

street2coordinates(address, session=getCurlHandle())

Arguments

address	A text string giving a street address.
session	This is the CURLHandle object giving the structure for the options and that will process the command. For curlMultiPerform, this is an object of class code MultiCURLHandle-class.

Value

A data frame containing:

full.address	The complete address that was analyzed.
country_name	The country of the address.
longitude	The longitude associate with the address.
fips_county	The fips county of the address. WTF?
region	The region of the address (state in US).
locality	The locality (city in US) of the address.
confidence	The degree of confidence associated with retrieving the address' information. Presumable near one is good.
street_address	Exactly as it sounds.
country_code	Country code of the address.
street number	The street number of the address.
country_code3	For those times when 2 just ain't enough!
country_code	Country code of the address.
latitude	The latitude of the address.
street_name	Why are you still reading this? It's a street name!

Author(s)

Ryan Elmore

References

http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/developerdocs#street2coordinates

See Also

getURL, getCurlHandle

Examples

	## Not run: 
		street2coordinates("2543 Graystone Place, Simi Valley, CA 93065")
	
## End(Not run)

RDSTK documentation built on May 2, 2019, 6:49 a.m.