wiki_geometry: Get Lat/Long Coordinates from Wikipedia Page

In niedermansam/wikiScraper: Scraping and formatting information from Wikipedia pages.

Description

A helper function to parse Wikipedia-style geographic coordinates.

Usage

wiki_geometry(data, delete_coords = T, coordinates)

Arguments

data	A data frame that contains a column of coordinates from Wikipedia.
delete_coords	Boolean value that indicates whether to remove the original coordinates column.
coordinates	A character object that contains the name of the column that contains the coordiantes to parse. If missing, the function will look for columns named coords or coordinates.

Value

Returns a the dataframe passed in the argument data, with columns lat and lon appended. By default, the original coordinates column is deleted.

Examples

wiki_table("List_of_metro_systems") %>% wiki_names()

niedermansam/wikiScraper documentation built on Nov. 4, 2019, 10:06 p.m.