languageStartsWith: Fetch countries data based on official language prefix

In r2country: Country Data with Names, Capitals, Currencies, Populations, Time, Languages and so on

Fetch countries data based on official language prefix

Description

Obtain country data matching language first one or more letters

Usage

languageStartsWith(char, full.list = TRUE)

Arguments

char	character to search in languages
full.list	whether to return only name of country or full list

Value

language list or country data list matching parts of a character search on languages

See Also

countryStartsWith for country search starting with specified characters, and [countryEndsWith()] for countries that end with a specified characters.

Examples

# task 1: get only language names that ends with "EN" or "en"
# note that the search in case-insensitive
languageStartsWith("eN", full.list = FALSE)

# task 2: get only language names that ends with "chi"
languageStartsWith("chi", full.list = FALSE)

# task 3: repeat task 2, but return full list for each country with the language
languageStartsWith("sin", full.list = TRUE)

# searching text with no results
languageStartsWith("er", full.list = FALSE)

r2country documentation built on Sept. 11, 2024, 9:24 p.m.