getGeo: Returns geographic information about a location string

In SMAPPNYU/smappR: Tools for analysis of Twitter data

Description

getGeo connects to the Data Science Tool Kit and converts the location string into a pair of coordinates, and then into information (city, state, country, congressional district...) for those coordinates

Usage

getGeo(location, verbose = FALSE,
  rdstk = "http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org",
  twofishes = "http://demo.twofishes.net/?autocomplete=true&maxInterpretations=1&")

Arguments

location	location string for which information is desired
verbose	If TRUE, provides additional information on console.
rdstk	URL for data science toolkit
twofishes	URL for twofishes geocoder

Author(s)

Pablo Barbera [e-mail]

Examples

## Not run: 
## Download geographic information for "New York"
 getGeo("New York")

## End(Not run)

SMAPPNYU/smappR documentation built on May 9, 2019, 11:19 a.m.