Alább a kód, ami GitHub-on is megtalálható.

FONTOS: a működéshez szükséges az rjson csomag (valószínűleg az RJSONIO is jó).

[crayon-61ed36ec5728a583827211 inline="true" ]getAddressCoord <- function(address){
address <- as.character(address)
address <- paste(unlist(strsplit(address, split=" ")), collapse="+")
base <- "http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?address="
ending <- "&sensor=false"
download.file(url=paste(base, address, ending, sep=""),
destfile="temp_address_info.json")
address.info <- fromJSON(file="temp_address_info.json")
unlink("temp_address_info.json")
if(address.info[["status"]] == "OK"){
long.lat <- unlist(address.info$results[[1]]$geometry$location)
return(long.lat)
} else {
return("Result is not appropriate!")
}
}

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