Rpostal

R package (wrap up) to libpostal (https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal) for fast international address parsing/normalization

Usage

# install from github
devtools::install_github("datactuariat/Rpostal")
library(Rpostal)

# Postal Expand
postal_expand("Quatre vignt douze Ave des Champs-Élysées")

# Postal Parse
postal_parse("Quatre vignt douze Ave des Champs-Élysées")

Installation

Before using the Rpostal, you must install the libpostal C library. Make sure you have the following prerequisites:

On Linux (Ubuntu)

sudo apt-get install libsnappy-dev autoconf automake libtool python-dev pkg-config

On Mac OSX

sudo brew install snappy autoconf automake libtool pkg-config

Installing libpostal

git clone https://github.com/openvenues/libpostal
cd libpostal
./bootstrap.sh
./configure
# see https://github.com/Datactuariat/Rpostal/issues/1#issuecomment-248175897
make
sudo make install

# On Linux it's probably a good idea to run
sudo ldconfig

To use Rpackage, make sure to use the libpostal_path parameter :

Rpostal::postal_parse("Adress",libpostal_path="/path/to/libpostal/src")
Rpostal::postal_expand("Adress",libpostal_path="/path/to/libpostal/src")