[R] R package that translates zip codes into longitude and longitude

[Bert Gunter]

For these sorts of questions, it might be more useful if you address these
sorts of queries to the package author or maintainer directly.

--Bert

On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 5:41 PM Nicola Ruggiero <
nicola.ruggiero.unt using gmail.com> wrote:

> I found this package "zipcode", by Jeffry Breen
> (http://www.jeffreybreen.com/code/).
>
> Does anyone have experience working with this one? And do you think it
> would help with my data, such as I exemplified it in my previous post
> to the listserv?
>
> His blog looks good
> (https://datamatters.blog/2011/01/05/cran-zipcode/). And this, too,
> was written about it
> (
> https://blog.exploratory.io/geocoding-us-zip-code-data-with-dplyr-and-zipcode-package-7f539c3702b0
> ).
>
> Warmly, Nicola
>
>
> On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 3:32 AM Jim Lemon <drjimlemon using gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Nicola,
> > There seems to be a big database of this here:
> >
> > http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/
> >
> > Jim
> >
> > On Mon, May 6, 2019 at 2:47 PM Nicola Ruggiero
> > <nicola.ruggiero.unt using gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi there,
> > >
> > > I'm looking for a R package that would enable me to add a column to a
> > > data.frame that is itself a translation of zip codes into longitude
> > > and latitude. The column in the data.frame looks like this [begin
> > > quote]:
> > >
> > > waltham, Massachusetts 02451
> > > Columbia, SC 29209
> > >
> > > Wheat Ridge , Colorado 80033
> > > Charlottesville, Virginia 22902
> > > Fairbanks, AK 99709
> > > Montpelier, VT 05602
> > > Dobbs Ferry, New York 10522
> > >
> > > Henderson , Kentucky 42420
> > >
> > > [end quote:] The spaces represent absences in the column. Regardless,
> > > I'm told that there is such an R package. I'm just having trouble
> > > locating it on Google.
> > >
> > > Warmly,
> > > Nicola
> > >
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