Issue will trying to use function geocode

[hbnsarah]

Description

I tried to run my script, using tidygeocoder. It worked perfectly one week ago and now, I get error message:
Error in geocode(., addr, method = "osm", lat = latitude, long = longitude) :
is.character(location) is not TRUE

So I copy pasted also the example you gave on the package description and again, exactly same error message.

What have you tried to resolve the issue? Updating your R packages to their most recent versions can sometimes resolve issues.

Steps to Reproduce

Include a small code example that someone else can run to reproduce the bug:

library(dplyr, warn.conflicts = FALSE)
library(tidygeocoder)
# create a dataframe with addresses
some_addresses <- tibble::tribble(
 ~name,                  ~addr,
 "White House",          "1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC",
"Transamerica Pyramid", "600 Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA 94111",     
"Willis Tower",         "233 S Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL 60606"                                  
)
 # geocode the addresses
 lat_longs <- some_addresses %>%
  geocode(addr, method = 'osm', lat = latitude , long = longitude)

#Error in geocode(., addr, method = "osm", lat = latitude, long = longitude) : 
  #is.character(location) is not TRUE

[jessecambon]

Hi @sarahhouben89, I'm not able to reproduce this error. Could you post a reprex and the results of devtools::session_info()?

Here is what I am getting on my system:

library(dplyr, warn.conflicts = FALSE)
library(tidygeocoder)
some_addresses <- tibble::tribble(
  ~name,                  ~addr,
  "White House",          "1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC",
  "Transamerica Pyramid", "600 Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA 94111",     
  "Willis Tower",         "233 S Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL 60606"                                  
  )
# geocode the addresses
lat_longs <- some_addresses %>%
   geocode(addr, method = 'osm', lat = latitude , long = longitude)
#> Passing 3 addresses to the Nominatim single address geocoder
#> Query completed in: 7.6 seconds

lat_longs
#> # A tibble: 3 × 4
#>   name                 addr                                      latit…¹ longi…²
#>   <chr>                <chr>                                       <dbl>   <dbl>
#> 1 White House          1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC     38.9   -77.0
#> 2 Transamerica Pyramid 600 Montgomery St, San Francisco, CA 941…    37.8  -122. 
#> 3 Willis Tower         233 S Wacker Dr, Chicago, IL 60606           41.9   -87.6
#> # … with abbreviated variable names ¹​latitude, ²​longitude

^{Created on 2023-06-21 with reprex v2.0.2}

[hbnsarah]

Hi!
Thx for the quick answer. When I wanted to reproduce it, now, it just worked normally like usual.
Strange thing is that it was not only on my Mac, also on the one of my colleague. exactly same mistake with 3 different scripts which used to work. (and no update in between today)
But well, hopefully it's working again!
Thank you for looking after it!
Have a nice day!

Sarah

[jessecambon]

No problem, glad it worked out. Sounds like it could have been a temporary issue with the geocoding service.

[hbnsarah]

Hello!
This morning, again, same issue for my colleague and I so here is the reprex and the session info also

library(dplyr, warn.conflicts = FALSE)
library(tidygeocoder)
library(leaflet)
library(ggmap)
#> Loading required package: ggplot2
#> ℹ Google's Terms of Service: <https://mapsplatform.google.com>
#> ℹ Please cite ggmap if you use it! Use `citation("ggmap")` for details.
#> 
#> Attaching package: 'ggmap'
#> 
#> 
#> The following object is masked from 'package:tidygeocoder':
#> 
#>     geocode


addresses <- data.frame(capitals = c("Dhaka, Bangladesh",
                                     "Kabul, Afganistan",
                                     "Abu Dhabi, UAE",
                                     "Brussel, Belgium", 
                                     "Brasília, Brazil",
                                     "Washington, D.C., USA",
                                     "Haut-Lomami, Congo",
                                     "Punjab, Pakistan"))


# getting addresses
lat_longs <- addresses %>% geocode(capitals, method = 'osm', lat = latitude , long = longitude)
#> Error in geocode(., capitals, method = "osm", lat = latitude, long = longitude): is.character(location) is not TRUE

Created on 2023-06-22 with reprex v2.0.2

Session info:

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 language (EN)
 collate  en_US.UTF-8
 ctype    en_US.UTF-8
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 date     2023-06-22
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 pandoc   3.1.1 @ /Applications/RStudio.app/Contents/Resources/app/quarto/bin/tools/ (via rmarkdown)

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 [1] /Users/shouben/Library/R/x86_64/4.2/library
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[jessecambon]

Hi @sarahhouben89, that is an odd error. I haven't been able to reproduce it on my end, but next time it happens can you run traceback() and post the results? That way we can see more detail on that error.

https://adv-r.hadley.nz/debugging.html#debugging

[hbnsarah]

Hello!
Sure!
Like that?

traceback()
4: stop(simpleError(msg, call = if (p <- sys.parent(1L)) sys.call(p)))
3: stopifnot(is.character(location))
2: geocode(., capitals, method = "osm", lat = latitude, long = longitude)
1: addresses %>% geocode(capitals, method = "osm", lat = latitude,
long = longitude)

[jessecambon]

Sorry, I forgot that won't show the files/packages involved. Can you try this command instead?

rlang::last_trace()

[hbnsarah]

rlang::last_trace()
Error: Can't show last error because no error was recorded yet

Mmmm this time, not conclusive but still same issue and same script