Obtain latitude and longitude from address without the use of Google API

Question

I am currently working on a large population-based database where it is required that I compute the distance between two addresses for each individual. My first train of tho

Answer 1

What you are doing is called "geocoding". Knowing that will greatly improve your ability to search for more info :) You may have already known that since you tagged the question properly, but I wanted to make sure.

Here's a really good previous Stack Overflow question, albeit not R specific.