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Dear list, I have a long list of towns in Africa and would need to get their geographical coordinates. The Google query [/TownName Country coordinates/] works for most of the TownNames I have and give a nicely formatted Google output (try Ingall Niger coordinates for an example). I would like to launch a loop on the list of names I have and automatically extract the coordinates given by Google. Does anyone knows how it can be done? ex. DB<-data.frame(town=c('Ingall',...