countrycode (version 1.2.0)

countryname: Convert country names in any language to another name or code

Description

Converts long country names in any language to one of many different country code schemes or country names. `countryname` does 2 passes on the data. First, it tries to detect variations of country names in many languages extracted from the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository. Second, it applies `countrycode`'s English regexes to try to match the remaining cases.

Usage

countryname(sourcevar, destination = "cldr.short.en", warn = FALSE)

Arguments

sourcevar

Vector which contains the codes or country names to be converted (character or factor)

destination

Coding scheme of destination (string such as "iso3c" enclosed in quotes ""): type `?codelist` for a list of available codes.

warn

Prints unique elements from sourcevar for which no match was found

Details

Note that the function works with non-ASCII characters. Please see the Github page for examples.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
x <- c('Afaganisitani', 'Barbadas', 'Sverige', 'UK')
countryname(x)
countryname(x, destination = 'iso3c')
# }
# NOT RUN {
# }