Vol. 72 No. 3 (2024): NAMES: A Journal of Onomastics
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A Note on the ‘toponym’ R Package : A Practical Introduction

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  • Lennart Chevallier,
  • Søren Wichmann
Lennart Chevallier
Kiel University
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Søren Wichmann
Kiel University
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5195/names.2024.2617

Published 2024-09-11

Keywords

  • toponym,
  • hydronym,
  • GeoNames,
  • R software

Copyright (c) 2024 Søren Wichmann, Lennart Chevallier

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Abstract

In this note, we describe how to install and use the ‘toponym’ R package, which is designed for mapping and manipulating toponymic data from the GeoNames database. This introduction will allow even unexperienced users of R to efficiently produce maps and perform simple analyses.

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