README.md

In HopkinsIDD/globaltoolbox: Identify Location Names and Link with Other Data

globaltoolbox

Installation

Install the globaltoolbox package from github:

devtools::install_github("HopkinsIDD/globaltoolbox")

Use

To use globaltoolbox, there are three steps:

1. Create the database (only required once)
2. Load the database (only required once per country)
3. Standardize a name using the loaded database

Create

Before loading the database, please create it with the create_database function.

Load

globaltoolbox provides a load_gadm function, which takes the ISO 3166-1 alpha 3 code of a country. This will download all locations from GADM and add them to the database.

globaltoolbox::load_gadm(countries = c('MWI','TZA'))

Search

globaltoolbox provides a telescoping_standardize function, which takes your best guess at the name of a location, and returns the standardized name (if it can find it).Then you will need to build a database of countries using their ISO 3166 alpha-3 codes:

Once you have a database, you'll be able to look up location names

globaltoolbox::telescoping_standardize(c("TZA::Balkh"))

HopkinsIDD/globaltoolbox documentation built on Feb. 16, 2020, 3:44 p.m.