Get Started With IP2Location R Module

Dependencies

This library requires IP2Location BIN database to function. You may download the BIN database at

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An outdated BIN database was provided in the databases folder for your testing.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

  1. 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'))

							
						

IP2Location Sample Database (BIN)

Sample Packages - BIN File IPv4 IPv6
IP2Location DB1 Download (1,001.91 kB) Download (1.04 MB)
IP2Location DB2 Download (24.58 MB) Download (25.22 MB)
IP2Location DB3 Download (21.21 MB) Download (21.32 MB)
IP2Location DB4 Download (43.89 MB) Download (44.04 MB)
IP2Location DB5 Download (31.89 MB) Download (32.05 MB)
IP2Location DB6 Download (54.08 MB) Download (54.26 MB)
IP2Location DB7 Download (48.70 MB) Download (48.88 MB)
IP2Location DB8 Download (59.17 MB) Download (59.37 MB)
IP2Location DB9 Download (36.78 MB) Download (36.95 MB)
IP2Location DB10 Download (64.62 MB) Download (64.89 MB)
IP2Location DB11 Download (37.51 MB) Download (37.69 MB)
IP2Location DB12 Download (65.32 MB) Download (65.55 MB)
IP2Location DB13 Download (35.03 MB) Download (35.21 MB)
IP2Location DB14 Download (66.55 MB) Download (66.80 MB)
IP2Location DB15 Download (40.72 MB) Download (40.96 MB)
IP2Location DB16 Download (70.89 MB) Download (71.18 MB)
IP2Location DB17 Download (42.47 MB) Download (42.69 MB)
IP2Location DB18 Download (78.33 MB) Download (78.61 MB)
IP2Location DB19 Download (61.85 MB) Download (62.09 MB)
IP2Location DB20 Download (80.79 MB) Download (81.12 MB)
IP2Location DB21 Download (44.39 MB) Download (44.56 MB)
IP2Location DB22 Download (84.78 MB) Download (85.22 MB)
IP2Location DB23 Download (62.33 MB) Download (62.51 MB)
IP2Location DB24 Download (85.90 MB) Download (86.40 MB)
IP2Location DB25 Download (87.92 MB) Download (88.33 MB)
IP2Location DB26 Download (94.51 MB) Download (95.09 MB)

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