| countrySynonyms {rworldmap} | R Documentation |
Synonyms of country names for each ISO 3 letter country code to enable conversion.
Description
contains a variable number of synonyms (mostly English language) for each country
Format
A data frame with 281 observations on the following 10 variables.
- ID
a numeric vector
- ISO3
ISO 3 letter country code
- name1
country name - most common
- name2
country name - alternative
- name3
country name - alternative
- name4
country name - alternative
- name5
country name - alternative
- name6
country name - alternative
- name7
country name - alternative
- name8
country name - alternative
Details
This is used by joinCountryData2Map() when country names are used as the joinCode. Note that using ISO codes is preferable if they are available.
Source
This was derived and used with permission from the Perl Locale
package.
Locale::Codes::Country_Codes.
Thanks to Sullivan Beck for
pulling this together.
Data sources are acknowledged here :
http://search.cpan.org/~sbeck/Locale-Codes-3.23/lib/Locale/Codes/Country.pod
Examples
data(countrySynonyms)