# continent_name country_code country_name To demonstrate both how to use the database, and how to use the geolocationįile <- system.file("extdata","GeoLite2-Country.mmdb", package = "rgeolocate") To minimise the effort for the individual user, the smaller,Ĭountry-level database is included in rgeolocate. MaxMind does openly release a more limited set of databases covering country and city data these are also supported and canīe obtained here. rgeolocate has support for retrieving continent, country, region, netspeed,Īnd timezone information from these databases, which (unfortunately!) must be paid for if you want to access them. The biggest chunk of functionality is around the MaxMind proprietary databases, which you can read about here. It contains bindings to a variety of web APIs for IP geolocation, as well as an interface to the proprietary MaxMind GeoIP databases (and a corresponding sample database).įor the package to install properly, you'll first need libmaxminddb: the source code and installation instructions can be found here. Rgeolocate is an R package for geolocating IP addresses.
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