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https://github.com/Ironholds/rgeolocate

Generalised IP geolocation through R
https://github.com/Ironholds/rgeolocate

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## Generalised IP geolocation through R

__Author(s:__ Os Keyes, Drew Schmidt

__License:__ Apache 2.0

__Status:__ Stable

__Current release:__ 1.0.1

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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](https://github.com/hrbrmstr/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:

1. A binding to the binary MaxMind databases;
2. Wrappers around multiple online geolocation services ([see the vignette](https://github.com/Ironholds/rgeolocate/blob/master/vignettes/Introduction_to_rgeolocate.Rmd)
for more)

If you have other bindings you'd like to see, [open a request](https://github.com/Ironholds/rgeolocate/issues)!

Please note that this project is released with a [Contributor Code of Conduct](https://github.com/Ironholds/rgeolocate/blob/master/CONDUCT.md). By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

### Installation

For the latest CRAN release:

install.packages("rgeolocate")

For the development version:

devtools::install_github("ironholds/rgeolocate")

### Dependencies
`rgeolocate` depends on [httr](https://cran.r-project.org/package=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.