README.md

In hrbrmstr/localgeo: localgeo

localgeo is a package that coverts a US City+State to lon/lat. This is a ridiculously small package and is really just a function interface over the cities.rda file in the data directory. So, just grab that if you want to wrap your own work around it.

It was made in response to http://stackoverflow.com/a/27868207/1457051 since there's no reason to waste bandwidth or cycles on an internet API when you can have the data locally.

The following functions are implemented:

• geocode : converts US city/states to lon/lat

News

• Version 1.0 released
• Version 1.1 released - speedup

Installation

devtools::install_github("hrbrmstr/localgeo")

Usage

library(localgeo)

# current verison
packageVersion("localgeo")

## [1] '1.1'

print(geocode("Eliot", "ME"))

##         lon      lat
## 1 -70.79925 43.15355

print(geocode(city=c("Houston", "Pittsburgh"),
              state=c("TX", "PA")))

##         lon      lat
## 1 -95.36400 29.76376
## 2 -79.99538 40.44091

Test Results

library(localgeo)
library(testthat)

date()

## [1] "Sun Mar 15 07:10:05 2015"

test_dir("tests/")

## basic functionality : .

hrbrmstr/localgeo documentation built on May 17, 2019, 5:10 p.m.