get official ISO list

Function which returns the ISO list which is used as default for the input data preparation. It contains the countries to which all source data has to be up- or downscaled to.

Usage

getISOlist(type = "all", threshold = 1)

Arguments

type

Determines what countries should be returned. "all" returns all countries, "important" returns all countries which are above the population threshold set in the configuration and "dispensable" returns all countries which are below the threshold.

threshold

Population threshold in million capita which determines whether the country is put into the "important" or "dispensable" class (default = 1 mio. people)

Value

vector of default ISO country codes.

Note

Please always use this function instead of directly referring to the data object as the format in this data list might change in the future!

See also

getSources, getCalculations

Other country tools: toolCountry2isocode(), toolCountryFill(), toolFillWithRegionAvg(), toolISOhistorical()

Author

Jan Philipp Dietrich

Examples

head(getISOlist())
#>         Aruba   Afghanistan        Angola      Anguilla Aland Islands 
#>         "ABW"         "AFG"         "AGO"         "AIA"         "ALA" 
#>       Albania 
#>         "ALB" 
head(getISOlist("dispensable"))
#>          Aruba       Anguilla  Aland Islands        Andorra 
#>          "ABW"          "AIA"          "ALA"          "AND" 
#> American Samoa     Antarctica 
#>          "ASM"          "ATA"