Author(s: Os Keyes, Drew Schmidt License: Apache 2.0 Status: Stable Current release: 1.0.1
IP geolocation is a powerful tool to have if you're dealing with web data, and there are a couple of R packages that provide access to specific services, such as the legacy rgeoip package or Bob Rudis's ipapi. They're all spread about and have diffing interfaces, styles and requirements.
rgeolocate
aims to be a single generalised package for geolocation; if you have a source you'd like to pull from, the
goal is that rgeolocate
will provide a binding to it. As of the 0.8.0 release, it contains:
If you have other bindings you'd like to see, open a request!
Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.
For the latest CRAN release:
install.packages("rgeolocate")
For the development version:
devtools::install_github("ironholds/rgeolocate")
rgeolocate
depends on httr for the bindings
to web databases; other than that, just base R! Thanks to the work of Drew Schmidt, rgeolocate
includes the underlying
binary libraries and their dependencies.
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