Last data update: 2014.03.03

R: Finds geographic information related to an IP address.
ip2coordinatesR Documentation

Finds geographic information related to an IP address.

Description

This function returns geographic information related to one or possibly more IP addresses.

Usage

ip2coordinates(ip, session=getCurlHandle())

Arguments

ip

A string containing a single IP address or multiple, comma-separated IPs.

session

This is the CURLHandle object giving the structure for the options and that will process the command. For curlMultiPerform, this is an object of class code MultiCURLHandle-class.

Value

A data.frame containing

ip.address

IP address of the request

ip.address

Longitude of the IP address' location

country_name

Country of origin

postal_code

Post code

region

State in the US; not sure elsewhere

locality

City in the US; not sure elsewhere

country_code

Two letter country abbreviation

dma_code

Hell if I know

latitude

Latitude of the IP address' location

country_code3

If two digits aren't enough!

area_code

Area code in the US; not sure elsewhere

Author(s)

Ryan Elmore

References

http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/developerdocs#ip2coordinates

See Also

getURL, getCurlHandle

Examples

	## Not run: 
		ip2coordinates("134.184.34.17, 48.82.68.161")
	
## End(Not run)

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