smappR (version 0.5)

getGeo: Returns geographic information about a location string

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

Examples

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