R help - May 2019 - R package that translates zip codes into longitude and longitude

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

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 at 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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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 at 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 at 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
> >
> > ______________________________________________
> > R-help at r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see
> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help
> > PLEASE do read the posting guide
http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
> > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.