match.country: Match country

In philbastian/matchcountry: Match Country

Match country

Description

Match country

Usage

match.country(country, output = "iso", language = "english")

Arguments

country	A vector of country names or ISO 3 digit alpha codes
output	A column of the MatchCountry table (mc) to return
language	The language of the inputs (by default, English; NULL will match on all) languages)
match	A csv file to use for matching
countrydata	A csv file to use

Details

This function is designed to recognize different variations of country names and standardize them. For example, "St. Kitts & Nevis", "Saint Kitts & Nevis" and "St Kitts and Nevis" all refer to the same place, but a simple merge with a table would fail to match them all. The database has a table of common alternative names. Further, the algorithm removes extended characters that might lead to confusion (St. vs. Saint, for example). Where a match cannot be found, NA is returned in its place.

If no language is specified, the algorithm will match on all languages, but this is less efficient and could be prone to errors.

The default output is the iso field of the countrydata data frame; any column of the countrydata can be used, however.

Value

A vector with the same length as country with the matching results

Examples

match.country("United Republic of Tanzania")
match.country("Tanzania")

philbastian/matchcountry documentation built on June 12, 2025, 11:46 p.m.