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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