tidyGeography: Use Google's geocoding API to return geocoded data from a...

In NumbersInternational/flipTransformations: Data transformations for flip

Use Google's geocoding API to return geocoded data from a vector of locations.

Description

Use Google's geocoding API to return geocoded data from a vector of locations.

Usage

tidyGeography(x, api.key)

Arguments

x	A vector of locations.
api.key	Google geocoding API key.

Details

This fuction iterates through a character vector of locations and returns a data.frame of geocoded variables including country, city, latitude, longitude, etc.

Examples

# vector of US postal codes
x <- c('98406', '40601', '32801', '79835', '61701')
# vector of US cities and states
x <- c('Yorba Linda, CA', 'Boise, ID', 'Tulsa, OK', 'Pittsburgh, PA', 'Birmingham, AL')
#vector of cities around the world
x <- c('Okinawa, Japan', 'Lisbon, Portugal', 'Toronto, Canada', 'Melbourne, Australia')

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