R package for accessing the geonames.org API
Install from here using devtools:
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install.packages("devtools")– if you don’t have devtools yet require(devtools)-
install.packages("rjson")– gets this dependency from CRAN install_github("ropensci/geonames")
A version of this will be pushed to CRAN.
To enable all of the functions of this package, register for a geonames.org username at http://www.geonames.org/login/ and then enable access to the geonames free webservices by clicking http://www.geonames.org/enablefreewebservice Once that’s done, in your R session, run options(geonamesUsername="myusername") to authenticate with the webservice. More information about the parameters for many of the functions in this package can be found here: http://www.geonames.org/export/ws-overview.html