Geocode more precise

[maelle]

I think it would be great to be able to get results for a precise part of a country if one knows the code for this region. E.g. "IN" is India and "IN-WB" is West Bengali, one could be interested in finding the results for "IN-WB".

[eddelbuettel]

That would be somewhat difficult. See the code and data in the package; you would have to unambiguously generalize to all world regions and sub-regions. This would have to start with a replacement countries data set, and new code.

Volunteers welcome.

[maelle]

Yes I agree that it is not easy to generalize. I have modified the code for my own needs but it's quite ugly. If I figure something better out I'll come back. :-)

[eddelbuettel]

Even if you have just a sketch, we could at least add it to the docs. Also worth noting that your suggestion already works -- which your initial post did not say :)

[maelle]

Yep sorry. But my sketch only returns the table with week and number of searches (not the other information). I modified the gtrends.R code (I hope the text is attached) so that it returns the string sooner and does not check countries. So at one point I have
vec <- strsplit(resultsText, "\n{2,}")[[1]]
return(vec[2])
gtrends.txt

Then I modify the string
dataSearch <- gtrends(query=query, geo=paste("IN-", code, sep=""), res="week",
start_date=as.Date("2012-12-31"))
dataSearch <- strsplit(dataSearch, "\n")
dataSearch <- lapply(dataSearch, strsplit, ",")
dataSearch <- unlist(dataSearch)
dataSearch <- dataSearch[4:length(dataSearch)]
dataSearch <- unlist(lapply(dataSearch, strsplit, " - "))
date1 <- lubridate::ymd(dataSearch[c(TRUE, FALSE, FALSE)])
interest <- as.numeric(dataSearch[c(FALSE, FALSE, TRUE)])

So really it's not a nice code right now.

I do not even know where to find a list of all subregions codes? Where did you find the table for all countries?

Anyway thanks a lot for the package, I'm glad it exists!

[PMassicotte]

https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#iso:code:3166:CA

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-2

http://www.unece.org/cefact/codesfortrade/codes_index.html

[maelle]

Thanks, I'll try to have a look at that!

[maelle]

Awesome!!!

[PMassicotte]

:)