checkNamesWR: Check World country names
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checkNamesWR

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Check World country names

Description

Check the differences between the names (or codes) given in input and the names (or codes) of the worldwide countries.

Usage

checkNamesWR(id,
             unit = c("country", "nato", "ocde",
                      "continent", "region", "subregion",
                      "region_wb", "type_income", "type_economy"),
             matchWith = c("country", "iso2", "iso3", "iso3_eh",
                           "iso3_numeric", "iso3_un", "iso2_wb",
                           "iso3_wb", "name_formal", "name_wb"),
             res = c("low", "hi"), return_logical = FALSE,
             print = TRUE, use_internet = TRUE)

Arguments

id

character vector with names or codes

unit

the type of world statistical unit

matchWith

the type of id to check:

`"country"`	if country names
`"iso2"`	if iso2 code
`"iso3"`	if iso3 code.
`"iso3_eh"`	if iso3_eh code
`"iso3_numeric"`	if iso3 numeric code
`"iso3_un"`	if iso3 United Nations
`"iso2_wb"`	if iso2 World Bank
`"iso3_wb"`	if iso3 World Bank
`"name_formal"`	if formal names
`"name_wb"`	if World Bank names

res

map resolution

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 in the dataset and the worldwide country names. The single unit can be coded in different ways, with names, id or iso standards.

Value

Returns a string vector with no matched names or a boolean vector indicating whether or not the id matched.

Author(s)

Alessio Serafini

Examples

data("popWR")

ck <- checkNamesWR(id = popWR$country, matchWith = "country")
ck
ck1 <- checkNamesWR(id = popWR$country_code, matchWith = "iso3", return_logical = TRUE)
ck1

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