Conversion for latitude/longitude to altitude in R

Question

Does anyone know if there is a tool in R to find the height above sea level of a location, given the latitude and longitude ?

Answer 1

There are R packages such as RCurl that allow web queries. There are also web resources, Further specfics will require .... well, ... more specifics.

http://gisdata.usgs.net/xmlwebservices2/elevation_service.asmx?op=getElevation