installr (version 0.23.4)

freegeoip: Geolocate IP addresses in R

Description

This R function uses the free freegeoip.net geocoding service to resolve an IP address (or a vector of them) into country, region, city, zip, latitude, longitude, area and metro codes.

The function require rjson.

Usage

freegeoip(
  ip = myip(),
  format = ifelse(length(ip) == 1, "list", "dataframe"),
  ...
)

Value

a list or data.frame with details on your geo location based on the freegeoip.net service.

Arguments

ip

a character vector of ips (default is the output from myip)

format

format of the output. Either "list" (default) or "data.frame"

...

not in use

Author

Heuristic Andrew (see source for details)

See Also

freegeoip, myip, cranometer

Examples

if (FALSE) {
freegeoip()

## http://www.students.ncl.ac.uk/keith.newman/r/maps-in-r
# install.packages("maps")
# install.packages("mapdata")
library(maps)
library(mapdata)    # Contains the hi-resolution points that mark out the countries.
map('worldHires')
require(installr)
myip_details <- freegeoip(myip())
my_lati <- myip_details$latitude
my_long <- myip_details$longitude
points(my_lati,my_long,col=2,pch=18, cex = 1)
# lines(c(my_lati,0) ,c(my_long, 50), col = 2)#' 
}