[R] package to convert coordiantes to timezone

[Michael Denslow]

Hi Thomas,

On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 11:02 AM, Thomas Steiner<finbref.2006 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a R-package with a function that returns me the timezone, if
> I hand over longitude and latitude?
> I know online services like
> http://ws.geonames.org/timezone?lat=-38.01&lng=147 and
> http://www.earthtools.org/webservices.htm#timezone and wodner if this
> exists for R too.
> Thanks for helping,
> thomas
>

There is a geonames package.

> library(geonames)
Loading required package: rjson
> GNtimezone(-38.01,147)
              time countryName rawOffset dstOffset countryCode
gmtOffset lng          timezoneId    lat
1 2009-08-03 10:23   Australia        10        10          AU
11 147 Australia/Melbourne -38.01
Warning message:
In readLines(u) :
  incomplete final line found on
'http://ws.geonames.org/timezoneJSON?lat=-38.01&lng=147'

Not sure why I get this error but I think this is what you are after,

Michael

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