On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 16:40 -0700, Henrik Bengtsson wrote: > On 9/6/07, Rolf Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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***??? :-) :-) :-) > > Wow! I didn't know that. What's the function call? > > /Henrik
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