Accesses Google Maps APIs to Retrieve Data and Plot Maps

Provides a mechanism to plot a 'Google Map' from 'R' and overlay it with shapes and markers. Also provides access to 'Google Maps' APIs, including places, directions, roads, distances, geocoding, elevation and timezone.


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install.packages("googleway")

2.7.8 by David Cooley, 3 years ago


Report a bug at https://github.com/SymbolixAU/googleway/issues


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/googleway


Authors: David Cooley [aut, cre] , Paulo Barcelos [ctb] (Author of c++ decode_pl) , Rstudio [ctb] (Functions written for the Leaflet pacakge)


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


MIT + file LICENSE license


Imports jsonlite, curl, htmlwidgets, htmltools, magrittr, shiny, jpeg, utils, jqr, viridisLite, scales, grDevices, googlePolylines

Suggests knitr, rmarkdown, testthat


Imported by googletraffic, rStrava.

Suggested by mapdeck.


See at CRAN