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geonames

R package for accessing the geonames.org API

Install from here using devtools:

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

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These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.