get_country_from_code: Conversion from country code to country name

In NYPL/libbib: Various Utilities for Library Science/Assessment and Cataloging

Conversion from country code to country name

Description

Takes a country code (defined in the Marc standards) and returns the country name.

Usage

get_country_from_code(x)

Arguments

x	A country code (defined in the Marc standards) or a vector of country codes

Details

Interestingly, although it's called 'country' in the Marc standard, cities, states, and other non-countries also have codes

Value

Returns the country (place) name. NA if cannot be matched to country in standard.

Examples

get_country_from_code("ck")
# Colombia

# tolerant of case and leading/trailing whitespace
get_country_from_code(c(" PE", "not-a-country", "nyu"))
# c("Peru", NA, "New York (State)")

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