In any case, its likely the service is accessible via a REST API.

This example demonstrates a few public geolocation APIs, each of which may have limitations on the number of queries per hourdayetc.

Also, please note that this example was created on 23-Sep-2016.

As time goes by, the public services referenced by this example may have changed or disappeared entirely.

Make sure to do your research before assuming this example will work.

The intent of this example is to give a flavor of what might be possible.

This article was first published on Robert Grants stats blog R, and kindly contributed to R-bloggers.

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It turns out there is a database at freegeoip.net which you can query for the location of a particular IP address.

And as it has a neat little API for batches of IPs, you can get R to fetch them en masse.

Thats exactly what Heuristic Andrew has just done with a function that uses the rjson package to pull down data from the JSON version of the database.

If you wanted to run a lot of these, you could compile your own local version of the database provided you have a Python interpreter, as described on the GitHub page.

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As you see above, the Google Map on the freegeoip.net home page looks up your own IP.

This location is a little residential street, and certainly doesnt look like the location of some big university server.

In fact, the database returns the city as Kingston (sounds good so far) and the regionname as St Helens (errr, not really, thats a few hundred miles north west from here).

But Google Maps has found an apartment block called St Helens, near Kingston.

I shoved these into Heuristic Andrews function and found four that returned an Error 404 from the database.

As he says, the function is very new and needs some better error handling.

The country names supplied to me by my ISP matched the freegeoip ones perfectly, so I took the latitudes and longitudes and put them in a map.

I hope you found the website useful.) The (latitude,longitude) is given by freegeoip as (36.8596,-88.3367) which is in a field a mile out of town.

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