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lingtypology (version 1.1.1)

is.glottolog: Are these languages in glottolog?

Description

Takes any vector of languages or ISO codes and return a logical vector.

Usage

is.glottolog(x, response = FALSE)

Arguments

x

A character vector of languages (can be written in lower case)or ISO codes

response

logical. If TRUE, when language is absent, return warnings with a possible candidates.

Examples

Run this code
# NOT RUN {
is.glottolog(c('Adyghe', 'Russian'))
is.glottolog('Buyaka')

# Add warning message with sugestions
is.glottolog(c('Adygey', 'Russian'), response = TRUE)
# > FALSE TRUE
# Warning message:
# In is.glottolog(c('Adyge', 'Russian'), response = TRUE) :
# Language Adyge is absent in our version of the Glottolog database. Did you mean Aduge, Adyghe?

# }

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