places_download: Download the latest Country data
In poldham/places: Access the Geonames Data Export Service

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Examples

View source: R/places_download.R

Read in and process geonames data dump files into a data.frame.

1	places_download(country = NULL, code = NULL)

`country`	A country name (use `places_lookup`). For all countries use "allcountries" (note > 300 MB file).
`code`	A two letter iso country code (use `places_lookup`)

Column names are converted to lower, spaces replaced with underscores and brackets removed. download_date added to table with the users system date. places_import cannot handle three letter country codes will throw an error.

a data.frame

## Not run: AI <- places_download(code = "AI") %>% places_import()
kenya <- places_download(country = "kenya") %>% places_import()
all <- places_download(country = "allcountries") %>% places_import()

## End(Not run)