r2country (version 2.0.2.4.0)

populationOf: Fetch the latest population count of a country

Description

With specified country name or names, get the associated population

Usage

populationOf

Value

a list containing all countries and their corresponding population

Format

An object of class list of length 193.

Examples

# view the searchable countries, return first 6
head(names(populationOf))

#task 0: check if the population of japan is included
#should be all in lower case
grep("japan",names(populationOf), value = TRUE)

#task 1: check the population of nigeria
populationOf$nigeria

#task 2: check the population of united states
populationOf$`united states`


#task 3: check population of multiple countries
populationOf[c("slovenia","romania","malaysia")]

#task 4: what if the population is not available
populationOf[c("randomcountry","mexico","luxembourg")]