jtuvaleva / yandex-geocoder

simple yandex geocoding API wrapper for R

yandex-geocodeR

simple yandex geocoding API wrapper for R

function

geocode(address, lang="uk_UA", results = 1, saveToFile = FALSE, allowMetadata = TRUE, fileName = "~/R/geocoded.csv")

arguments

address - character vector of length 1 or more - basically address you want to geocode

lang - character - locale (language and region), by default it's "uk_UA" now but you can change it. available options - "ru_RU", "be_BY", "en_US", "tr_TR"

results - numeric - number of results to return (in case there're more then one)

saveToFile - logical (TRUE/FALSE) - do you want to save result to csv file or to return dataframe, defaults to FALSE

allowMetadata - logical (TRUE/FALSE) - do you want just longitude and latitude or additional information, defaults to TRUE

fileName - character - in case you want to save data to file you should provide path and filename, defaults to "~/R/geocoded.csv"

output is data.frame

(with allowMetadata = TRUE)

request - address you requested
lon - longitude
lat - latitude
kind - toponim kind (house, street, metro, district, locality) read the yandex docs
precision - exact, number, near, range, street, other read the yandex docs
text - full address decoded by yandex
addressLine
countryNameCode
countryName
administrativeAreaName
localityName
thoroughfareName
premiseNumber

with (allowMetadata = FALSE)

request
lon
lat

limitations

25 000 requests per day

dependencies

httr library

read yandex geocoding docs