NEWS.md

In 12mre1/geocodr: Batch Geocoding of CSV Files with Google Maps API

geocodr 0.0.0.9000

Aug 28,2019

The CRAN version of the ggmap package does not use a secure (https) request, which prevents the map_it() function from executing. To solve this, install the most recent version from GitHub by running: devtools::install_github("dkahle/ggmap") in your R console.

If you work for a company with a strict firewall, they may automatically block requests to google. This will give you an error like the following:

Error in curl::curl_fetch_memory(url, handle = handle) : 
  Failed to connect to maps.googleapis.com port 443: Timed out

To solve this problem, you can use a proxy server to send your requests. It's easy to change the default server to a proxy in R using the httr package.

install.packages('httr') # You needn't do this if you already have the package installed
library(httr)
set_config(use_proxy(url="http://[proxy_url]", port = XXX))

You'll need to substitute a real url and port. 80 and 443 are the most common ports.

12mre1/geocodr documentation built on Oct. 30, 2019, 4:02 a.m.