[R] Could R help with locating coordinates in a serial manner?

[Ista Zahn]

Hi,

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8751497/latitude-longitude-coordinates-to-state-code-in-r

Best,
Ista

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 5:35 PM, Onur Uncu <onuruncu at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear R community,
>
> My question is not a quick fix one but it would be helpful if you have any
> advice for me.
>
> I have a large data set of many locations in the US and all of these
> locations are expressed in coordinates (longitudes and latitudes). I need a
> tool which returns the state that each location is situated in. So the
> program should return me a vector of state names (eg. NY,CA,OH, etc). Could
> R help with this? Any ideas on other technologies that can be used for
> this? Sorry for the open ended question. Thank you.
>
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