Dear R list
Just wanted to share with you the news about a package that helps
converting from different country coding systems (iso2, iso3, fao,
un...).
If you are working with country-level data, it happens often that
the countries will be spelled differently, have different codes
etc... With the package countrycode, conversion to your favourite
code (fao?) is facilitated.
I made a quick demo on the intranet: http://intranet.fao.org/departments/cio/ciok/kisaf/kisaf_home/r_platform/country_codes_conversion/
which shows basically these example:
install.packages("countrycode")
library(countrycode)
countrycode(sourcevar = "GAB", origin = "iso3c", destination = "fao")
countrycode(sourcevar = c("Gabon", "India"), origin = "country.name", destination = "fao")
Note that even if this helps for many countries, it is unlikely that
it will work for all, since the package does not include all
possible countries or state boundaries (think holy sea, Gaza band,
"old" countries such as USSR or Yougoslavia..).
Best
Matthieu
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Matthieu Stigler
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