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google_maps_with_rvest
library(dplyr); library(httr); library(rvest)
addr <- "Big Ben"
GET("http://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/xml",
query = list(address = addr)) %>%
content() %>%
html_nodes(xpath = "//location//lat | //location//lng") %>%
html_text() %>%
setNames(c("lng", "lat"))
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