get_admin_names {epiCleanr}

Retrieve Administrative Names from GeoNames

Description

This function grabs administrative region names (such as districts, provinces, etc.) for a given country from the 'GeoNames' website. It accepts both country names and various country coding schemes.

Usage

get_admin_names(country_name_or_code, silent_mode = TRUE)

Arguments

country_name_or_code

Character or numeric. The name or code of the country for which administrative names are to be retrieved. This can be in various formats such as country name, ISO codes, UN codes, etc., see 'countrycode::codelist()' for the full list of codes and naming conventions used.

silent_mode

A logical indicating whether to suppress messages. Default is TRUE.

Value

A list containing administrative region names and details for different administrative levels (e.g., ADM1, ADM2, etc.). Each element of the list corresponds to a different administrative level and contains a data frame with columns such as country_code, ascii name, alternate names, latitude, longitude, and date last updated.

See Also

'Geonames' website for the source of admin names data

Examples

# example using different naming/code conventions
three_digit <- get_admin_names("TGO")   # using 3 digit iso codes
two_digit <- get_admin_names("TG")      # using 2 digit iso codes
un_code <- get_admin_names(768)         # using UN codes
full_name <-  get_admin_names("Togo")   # using full names

str(full_name$adm2)