checkNamesWR {mapping}

Check World country names

Description

Check the differences between the names (or codes) given in input and the names (or codes) of the worldwide countries.

Usage

checkNamesWR(id,
             unit = c("country", "nato", "ocde",
                      "continent", "region", "subregion",
                      "region_wb", "type_income", "type_economy"),
             matchWith = c("country", "iso2", "iso3", "iso3_eh",
                           "iso3_numeric", "iso3_un", "iso2_wb",
                           "iso3_wb", "name_formal", "name_wb"),
             res = c("low", "hi"), return_logical = FALSE,
             print = TRUE, use_internet = TRUE)

Arguments

id

character vector with names or codes

unit

the type of world statistical unit

matchWith

the type of id to check:

"country"	if country names
"iso2"	if iso2 code
"iso3"	if iso3 code.
"iso3_eh"	if iso3_eh code
"iso3_numeric"	if iso3 numeric code
"iso3_un"	if iso3 United Nations
"iso2_wb"	if iso2 World Bank
"iso3_wb"	if iso3 World Bank
"name_formal"	if formal names
"name_wb"	if World Bank names

res

map resolution

return_logical

a logical value indicating whether nomatched id are returned

print

a logical value indicating whether print the nomatched names

use_internet

a logical value indicating wheter the coordinates are downloaded from https://github.com/mappinguniverse/geospatial. If FALSE the maps downloaded during package installation will be used.

Details

The function provides a check between id name in the dataset and the worldwide country names. The single unit can be coded in different ways, with names, id or iso standards.

Value

Returns a string vector with no matched names or a boolean vector indicating whether or not the id matched.

Author(s)

Alessio Serafini

See Also

checkNamesIT, checkNamesEU, checkNamesUS

Examples

data("popWR")

ck <- checkNamesWR(id = popWR$country, matchWith = "country")
ck
ck1 <- checkNamesWR(id = popWR$country_code, matchWith = "iso3", return_logical = TRUE)
ck1