dictionary: dictionary: Dictionary of Vietnamese admin1 Names

In choisy/dictionary: Dictionary of South East Asia Admin1, Admin2 and Admin3 Names

Description

This package contains a dictionary for Vietnamese admin1 names, admin2 names and admin3 names, useful to ensure consistency between different data packages using vietnamese admin1, districts and/or admin3.

From Gadm and Geonames creates a UNICODE dictionary, names vector, with the translation in English without accent.

Usage

dictionary(countryname, level, add_dict = NULL, force = FALSE)

Arguments

countryname	string character country name
level	numeric level of administrative boundaries (1: admin1, 2: admin2), should be either 1 or 2
add_dict	which contains at least one column translate (english without accent) and one or multiple columns containing the tag 'var' in the column names (all this columns will be used to create the possible variable)
force	boolean to force the gadm downlaoding if trouble

Details

You can create dictionary for different level: 1 (admin1) and 2 (admin2), from the data of GADM and Geonames but you can also add costum value by using the argument add_dict. It is also possible to use only the parameter add_dict to generate custom dictionary.
The variables created are express in upper, lower cases, with or without space or "_" or with capital etters at the beginning of each word and expressed it in UNICODE.
Source : gadm: https://gadm.org
Source: geonames: http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/

Examples

dict_vn <- dictionary("Vietnam", 1)
head(dict_vn)

choisy/dictionary documentation built on Aug. 21, 2019, 3:52 p.m.