Get Started With IP2Location R Module
Dependencies
This library requires IP2Location BIN database to function. You may download the BIN database at
IP2Location LITE BIN Data (Free): https://lite.ip2location.com
IP2Location Commercial BIN Data (Comprehensive): https://www.ip2location.com
Note
An outdated BIN database was provided in the databases folder for your testing. You are recommended to visit the above links to download the latest BIN database.
This library also requires IP2Location Python library for geolocation lookup. Hence, you will need to install the Python and IP2Location module before using this R package. It works in both Windows and Linux environment, and below is the installation command.
Windows
At the command prompt, please run pip install IP2Location to install the module.
Linux
At the terminal, please run pip install IP2Location to install the module.
Requirements
R 3.2.3 and above.
Installation
Run install.packages("ip2location") in your R Studio IDE command prompt.
Sample Codes
Query geolocation information from BIN database
You can query the geolocation information from the IP2Location BIN database as below:
library(ip2location)
ip2location::open("IP-COUNTRY-REGION-CITY-LATITUDE-LONGITUDE-ZIPCODE-TIMEZONE-ISP-DOMAIN-NETSPEED-AREACODE-WEATHER-MOBILE-ELEVATION-USAGETYPE-ADDRESSTYPE-CATEGORY-DISTRICT-ASN-SAMPLE.BIN")
result = ip2location::get_all("8.8.8.8")
print(result)
Plot IP addresses on the map
To plot IP addresses on the map, use the open and plot_map functions like this:
ip2location::open("~/IP-COUNTRY-REGION-CITY-LATITUDE-LONGITUDE-ZIPCODE-TIMEZONE-ISP-DOMAIN-NETSPEED-AREACODE-WEATHER-MOBILE-ELEVATION-USAGETYPE-SAMPLE.BIN")
ip2location::plot_map(c('8.8.8.8','8.8.6.6'))
