MaddisonData (version 1.0.2)

MaddisonCountries: Maddison Project data

Description

The Maddison project collates historical economic statistics from many sources. MaddisonCountries is a data.frame of all (countrycode, country, region) combinations in those data.

Usage

MaddisonCountries

Format

MaddisonCountries

A data frame with 3 columns:

ISO

3-letter ISO country code

country

Country name used by the Maddison project

region

Geographic region including country

Its rownames = ISO.

Examples

# Get the country for a countrycode (IS)
subset(MaddisonCountries, ISO=='GBR', country)
# Or
MaddisonCountries['GBR', 'country']
# Find Yugoslavia 
subset(MaddisonCountries, grepl('Yugo', country), 1:3)
# number of countries by region 
table(MaddisonCountries$region)
# What are "Western Offshoots"? 
subset(MaddisonCountries, grepl('Of', region), c(country, ISO))