toolCountry2isocode

Function used to convert country names from the long name to the ISO 3166-1 alpha 3 country code

Usage

toolCountry2isocode(
  country,
  warn = TRUE,
  ignoreCountries = NULL,
  type = NULL,
  mapping = NULL
)

Arguments

country

A vector of country names

warn

whether warnings should be printed now or in the end of the whole process as notes

ignoreCountries

A vector of country names/codes that exist in the data and that should be removed but without creating a warning (they will be removed in any case). You should use that argument if you are certain that the given entries should be actually removed from the data.

type

deprecated and will be removed soon!

mapping

additional mappings as a names vector

Value

the ISO 3166-1 alpha 3 country code

See also

readSource,getSources

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

Author

Jan Philipp Dietrich, Anastasis Giannousakis

Examples

toolCountry2isocode("Germany")
#> [1] "DEU"
toolCountry2isocode(c("Germany","Fantasyland"),mapping=c("Fantasyland"="BLA"))
#> [1] "DEU" "BLA"