geonames-package: R Interface to the www.geonames.org web query service
In geonames: Interface to www.geonames.org web service

This package wraps calls to the web service on www.geonames.org, to provide a number of functions for geographic information queries. It can query administrative regions, time zones, weather info, cities, wikipedia and so on. For more documentation go to http://www.geonames.org/ and check the web service info list.

Note that by default the package uses www.geonames.org as the host name. In the past the service has occasionally changed its host name, so in order to change the host name used by the package you can set it using options(geonamesHost="www2.geonames.org") in R.