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Last data update: 2014.03.03

R: Converts a street address into useful geographic information.

street2coordinates

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Converts a street address into useful geographic information.

This function returns a host of geographic information related to a given street address.

street2coordinates(address, session=getCurlHandle())

`address`	A text string giving a street address.
`session`	This is the CURLHandle object giving the structure for the options and that will process the command. For curlMultiPerform, this is an object of class code MultiCURLHandle-class.

A data frame containing:

`full.address`	The complete address that was analyzed.
`country_name`	The country of the address.
`longitude`	The longitude associate with the address.
`fips_county`	The fips county of the address. WTF?
`region`	The region of the address (state in US).
`locality`	The locality (city in US) of the address.
`confidence`	The degree of confidence associated with retrieving the address' information. Presumable near one is good.
`street_address`	Exactly as it sounds.
`country_code`	Country code of the address.
`street number`	The street number of the address.
`country_code3`	For those times when 2 just ain't enough!
`country_code`	Country code of the address.
`latitude`	The latitude of the address.
`street_name`	Why are you still reading this? It's a street name!

Ryan Elmore

http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/developerdocs#street2coordinates

	## Not run: 
		street2coordinates("2543 Graystone Place, Simi Valley, CA 93065")
	
## End(Not run)