[R-sig-Geo] geocoding street addresses within R, not using any web-based services

[Thierry Onkelinx]

Dear Christopher,

Have a look at the rgeos and spgrass6 packages. rgeos provides several GIS
operations. spgrass6 allows to move data from R to GRASS GIS (and vice
versa). You can run GRASS operations from within R.

Best regards,

Thierry

ir. Thierry Onkelinx
Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek / Research Institute for Nature and
Forest
team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg / team Biometrics & Quality Assurance
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Belgium

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2016-01-21 16:18 GMT+01:00 Christopher W. Ryan <cryan at binghamton.edu>:

> Hello. I'm a longtime R and R-help user, and recent listener on
> R-sig-geo. First post here. I use R on both Win 7 and Linux Mint.
>
> Is there a way to geocode street addresses in the US within R on my
> local machine, that is, without transmitting the addresses to any
> web-based service?  I have about 26,000 street addresses for a certain
> type of ambulance call. I'd prefer (so does my Institutional Review
> Board) that the addresses remain with me.
>
> So far I have been using ArcGIS to geocode them on my own machine, and
> then export the resulting shapefiles of point patterns to R, for
> analysis with spatstat. But I'd rather to it all within R if possible.
> (I get frustrated with menu-driven ArcGIS.)
>
> My data are street addresses, not lon/lat coordinates. I have street
> segment databases for the relevant counties from the US Census Bureau
> TIGER shapefiles.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> --Chris Ryan
> Broome County Health Department and
> Binghamton University and
> SUNY Upstate Medical University
> Binghamton, NY
>
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