After the initial query about finding timezones in R, I've gone mad and written an entire package for querying all of (well, most of) geonames.org. It's hosted on R-Forge: http://geonames.r-forge.r-project.org/ and recently submitted to CRAN. Install from the R-forge repo with: install.packages("geonames",repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org") if anyone else wants to help develop it, get an R-forge account and I'll add you in.
geonames API for R
2 messages · Barry Rowlingson, Edzer Pebesma
Looks great, Barry. I think to show the potential and to seduce people to start using this, it would be very valuable to add a few examples, preferably one for each of the items in http://www.geonames.org/export/ws-overview.html , or just the most dissimilar ones. Right now you assume that users can figure out how to form requests by looking at the above link alone. I, for instance, couldn't. -- Edzer
Barry Rowlingson wrote:
After the initial query about finding timezones in R, I've gone mad and written an entire package for querying all of (well, most of) geonames.org. It's hosted on R-Forge: http://geonames.r-forge.r-project.org/ and recently submitted to CRAN. Install from the R-forge repo with: install.packages("geonames",repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org") if anyone else wants to help develop it, get an R-forge account and I'll add you in.
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