Users sometimes do not know what kind of code or field their data contain.
This function tries to guess by comparing the similarity between a
user-supplied vector and all the codes included in the countrycode
dictionary.
guess_field(codes, min_similarity = 80)
a vector of country codes or country names
the function returns all field names where over than
min_similarity
% of codes are shared between the supplied vector and the
countrycode
dictionary.
# Guess ISO codes
guess_field(c('DZA', 'CAN', 'DEU'))
# Guess country names
guess_field(c('Guinea','Iran','Russia','North Korea',rep('Ivory Coast',50),'Scotland'))
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