Package: countries 1.2.1

countries: Deal with Country Data in an Easy Way

Wrangle country data more effectively and quickly. This package contains functions to easily identify and convert country names, download country information, merge country data from different sources, and make quick world maps.

Authors:Francesco Saverio Bellelli [aut, cre, cph]

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NEWS

# Install 'countries' in R:

install.packages('countries', repos = c('https://fbellelli.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/fbellelli/countries/issues

Pkgdown site:https://fbellelli.github.io

Datasets:

country_reference_list - Conversion table
country_reference_list_long - Conversion table in long format
world - World map data

On CRAN:

5.15 score 3 stars 47 scripts 807 downloads 22 exports 54 dependencies

Last updated 1 months agofrom:cbb6aee261. Checks:4 OK, 5 NOTE. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Latest binary
Doc / Vignettes	OK	Mar 24 2025
R-4.5-win	OK	Mar 24 2025
R-4.5-mac	OK	Mar 24 2025
R-4.5-linux	OK	Mar 24 2025
R-4.4-win	NOTE	Mar 24 2025
R-4.4-mac	NOTE	Mar 24 2025
R-4.4-linux	NOTE	Mar 24 2025
R-4.3-win	NOTE	Mar 24 2025
R-4.3-mac	NOTE	Mar 24 2025

Exports:auto_melt auto_merge check_countries_api check_wide_format country_info country_name find_countrycol find_keycol find_timecol is_country is_date is_keycol list_countries list_fields match_table Mode palettes_countries quick_map random_countries which_max which_min which_mode

Dependencies:askpass cli colorspace cpp11 curl dplyr evaluate fansi farver fastmatch generics ggplot2 glue gridExtra gtable highr httr isoband jsonlite knitr labeling lattice lifecycle lubridate magrittr MASS Matrix mgcv mime munsell nlme openssl pillar pkgconfig purrr R6 RColorBrewer rlang scales stringdist stringi stringr sys tibble tidyr tidyselect timechange utf8 vctrs viridis viridisLite withr xfun yaml

Dealing with country names

Rendered fromdealing_with_names.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdownon Mar 24 2025.

Last update: 2024-01-20
Started: 2022-02-27

Easy joining with auto_merge()

Rendered fromauto_merge.Rmdusingknitr::rmarkdownon Mar 24 2025.

Last update: 2023-09-01
Started: 2023-08-04

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Development and contributors

Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help page	Topics
Automatic pivoting of country and year columns to a long format	auto_melt
Simplified merging supporting different country nomenclatures and date formats	auto_merge
Check if the connection to Countries REST API is working	check_countries_api
Check for wide country data formats	check_wide_format
Get information about countries	country_info
Convert and translate country names	country_name
Conversion table	country_reference_list
Conversion table in long format	country_reference_list_long
Finds columns containing country names	find_countrycol
Find a set of columns that uniquely identifies table entries	find_keycol
Finds columns containing date and year data	find_timecol
Tests whether a string is a country name	is_country
Test whether the input is a date	is_date
Test whether a set of column could be a data frame key	is_keycol
Get a list of country names	list_countries
List of accepted fields for the function country_info	list_fields
Create a conversion table for country names	match_table
Statistical mode of a vector	Mode
Discrete colour palettes	palettes_countries
Easily visualise country data with a map	quick_map
Output random country names	random_countries
Return location of minimum, maximum and mode values' index	which_max which_min which_mode
World map data	world