checkNamesIT: Check Italian names

In mapping: Automatic Download, Linking, Manipulating Coordinates for Maps

Check Italian names

Description

Check the differences between the names (or codes) given in input and the corresponding names (or codes), as provided by ISTAT, of the selected Italian statistical unit.

Usage

checkNamesIT(id,
             unit = c("ripartizione", "regione", "provincia","comune"),
             year = c("2021","2020", "2019", "2018", "2017"),
             matchWith = c("name", "code", "number"),
             return_logical = FALSE, print = TRUE, use_internet = TRUE)

Arguments

id	character vector with names or codes
unit	the type of Italian statistical unit to check
year	year of the analysis
matchWith	the type of id to check: "name" if unit names "code" if unit code "number" if unit number code
return_logical	a logical value indicating whether nomatched id are returned
print	a logical value indicating whether print the nomatched names
use_internet	a logical value indicating wheter the coordinates are downloaded from https://github.com/dataallaround/geospatial. If FALSE the maps downloaded during package installation will be used.

Details

The function provides a check between id name or code in the dataset and the corresponding selected Italian statistical unit. unit starts from the largest aggregate, "ripartizione", to the smallest, "comune". Since unit can change over the years, the year of the data has to be provided.

Value

Returns a string vector with nomatched names or a boolean vector indicating whether or not the id matched.

Author(s)

Alessio Serafini

See Also

checkNamesEU, checkNamesUS, checkNamesWR

Examples

data("popIT")
ck <- checkNamesIT(popIT$ID, unit = "provincia")
str(ck)


ck <- checkNamesIT(popIT$ID, unit = "provincia", return_logical = TRUE)
str(ck)

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