regioncoderus: Convert Country Codes

In muuankarski/regioncoderus: Language conversions for Russian region names and support files for spatial analysis

Description

Converts long country names into one of many different coding schemes. Translates from one scheme to another. Converts country name or coding scheme to the official short English country name. Creates a new variable with the name of the continent or region to which each country belongs.

Usage

regioncoderus(sourcevar, origin, destination, warn = FALSE)

Arguments

sourcevar	Vector which contains the codes or country names to be converted
origin	Coding scheme of origin (name enclosed in quotes "")
destination	Coding scheme of destination (name enclosed in quotes "")
warn	Prints unique elements from sourcevar for which no match was found

Note

Supports the following coding schemes: Correlates of War character, CoW-numeric, ISO3-character, ISO3-numeric, ISO2-character, IMF numeric, International Olympic Committee, FIPS 10-4, FAO numeric, United Nations numeric, World Bank character, official English short country names (ISO), continent, region.

The following strings can be used as arguments for origin or destination: "cowc", "cown", "iso3c", "iso3n", "iso2c", "imf", "fips104", "fao", "ioc", "un", "wb", "country.name". The following strings can be used as arguments for destination only: "continent", "region"

Examples

codes.of.origin <- regioncoderus::regioncoderus_data$cowc # Vector of values to be converted
regioncoderus(codes.of.origin, "cowc", "iso3c")

muuankarski/regioncoderus documentation built on May 23, 2019, 10:53 a.m.