On 7/09/2007, at 10:17 AM, (Ted Harding) wrote: > On 06-Sep-07 18:42:32, Philip James Smith wrote: >> Hi R-ers: >> >> I need to compute the distance between 2 street addresses in >> either km or miles. I do not care if the distance is a "shortest >> driving route" or if it is "as the crow flies." >> >> Does anybody know how to do this? Can it be done in R? I have >> thousands of addresses, so I think that Mapquest is out of the >> question! >> >> Please rely to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Thank you! >> Phil Smith > > That's a somewhat ill-posed question! You will for a start > need a database of some kind, either of geographical locations > (coordinates) of street addresses, or of the metric of the > road network with capability to identify the street addresses > in the database.
<snip> > > As far as I know, R has no > database relevant to street addresses! But Ted! Don't you know that statistics in general and R in particular are supposed to be able to ***work MAGIC***??? :-) :-) :-) cheers, Rolf ###################################################################### Attention:\ This e-mail message is privileged and confidenti...{{dropped}} ______________________________________________ R-help@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list 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.