Geolocate IP addresses in R

Source: R/geo_functions.R

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.

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

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

Source

https://heuristically.wordpress.com/2013/05/20/geolocate-ip-addresses-in-r/.

Value

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

See also

freegeoip, myip, cranometer

Author

Heuristic Andrew (see source for details)

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)#' 
}