codes: Country code and name details and documentation

In alistaire47/passport: Travel Smoothly Between Country Name and Code Formats

Description

A codebook data.frame of codes and details for country code and name conversions available. Contains Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) language tags (e.g. "en-nz" for New Zealand English) for Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) names, similar approximations for institutional names (e.g. "en-iso"), and short names (e.g. "iso2c") for country codes.

Usage

codes

Format

A data.frame of 427 rows and 9 variables.

Variables:

column

The column name in the internal passport:::countries data.frame. Valid for use in from and to parameters.

code

column with hyphens for underscores, which is a valid IANA language tag for Unicode CLDR country names. Valid for use in from and to parameters.

name

Full name or code name for non-CLDR options.

notes

Things to note, including deprecations, oddities, etc.

language

Full language name parsed from code.

region

Full country or region name parsed from code.

script

Full language script name parsed from code.

variant

Full variant parsed from code. Also used for organization-standardized names.

extension

Further specification of name type.

Details

All functions can accept codes separated with underscores _, hyphens -, or periods ..

Examples

# A searchable widget to find a code or name
if (requireNamespace("DT", quietly = TRUE)) {
    DT::datatable(codes)
}

alistaire47/passport documentation built on Dec. 7, 2020, 8:43 a.m.