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t2gis

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Export Tweeter with geotagg in Sqlite table to KML, shapefiles or GML

Description

This functions import geotagged tweets as SpatialPointDataFrame from a Sqlite database containing the tweets and export it in a GIS format

Usage

t2gis(dbname, export)

Arguments

`dbname`	It is the Sqlite Database name where the tweets are stored. Sqlite is embedded in R within the package `RSQLite`. Sqlite database have no field extension. More information about Sqlite it its web page.
`export`	Export the tweets stored in the sqlite database to shape file, GML or KML. It imports only the geotagged tweets. The options are; shp (by default option), kml, gml. Note that only will be exported if there are geotweets.

Author(s)

Pau Arag<c3><83><c2><b3> Galindo parago@uji.es

Examples


## Not run: 

#File prefix name for json files and also the name of the database
dbname=tweets
#export option to a GIS format
export="shp"

t2sqlite(dbname, export)

## End(Not run)