News

countrycode 1.6.1

• The simplify argument in apply was introduced in R 4.1.0. We used it, which broke usage of countrycode on older versions of R.
• genc code improvements.

countrycode 1.6.0

• Important speed-up for detection of country names using regular expressions (Thanks to Etienne Bacher).
• countryname gets the nomatch argument.
• countryname returns NA when the code does not support a given country. (Issue #336)
• Improved regex for Italy
• eurocontrol_statfor updated: ESRA->ECAC to account for redistribution: https://www.eurocontrol.int/sites/default/files/2020-11/eurocontrol-forecast-2020-2024-region-definition.pdf Thanks to @sthonnard for contribution #352.
• Antarctica now has a “continent” value. Thanks to @geryan for report #353.

countrycode 1.5.0

• get_dictionary() function to download custom dictionaries (cross-walks):
  • US States, Swiss Cantons, Global Burden of Disease, ExioBase, GTAP.
• New codes: Polity V “p5c”, “p5n”
• New code “unhcr_region”. Thanks to @galalH for code contribution #329
• Many regex improvements
• Several minor bug fixes

countrycode 1.4.0

• Detect French country names using regular expressions: origin = "country.name.fr" (Thanks to Samuel Meichtry)
• Detect Italian country names using regular expressions: origin = "country.name.it" (Thanks to Samuel Meichtry)

countrycode 1.3.1

• New code: unhcr

countrycode 1.3.0

• destination argument accepts a vector of strings and tries one after the other
• countryname(warn=TRUE) by default
• better class checks
• countryname defaults to country.name.en for missing country names (nomatch=NULL)
• Vietnam: better regex and support for vdem
• Namibia fixes: eurostat, genc2c, wb_api2c, ecb
• Various regex improvements
• Congo French disambiguation

countrycode 1.2.0

• New ‘countryname’ function converts country names from any language (thanks to @davidsjoberg)
• New guess_field function guesses which code a vector uses
• Bug in dict build inserted NA in region variable (Thanks to M. Pascariu)
• Added region23 with the old, more granular regions
• Added unicode.symbol, which converts to emoji flags
• Added ISO 4217 currency name, alpha, and numeric codes
• Added UN region codes and names
• Added IANA ccTLD codes
• Improved various regexes

countrycode 1.1.3

• Added Demographic and Health Surveys (thanks to @mcooper)

countrycode 1.1.2

• Updated World Bank regions with manual additions

countrycode 1.1.1

• Bug: Typo prevented users for using “p4n” as origin code
• Fixed bad icao.region codes (Thanks to @espinielli)
• Added country name “United Arab Republic” and its regex (Thanks to Gina Reynolds)
• Added SOM to wb code (Thanks to Fabian Besche)
• Added Vietnam to codelist_panel

countrycode 1.1.0

• Gleditsch and Ward codes (Thanks to Altaf Ali)
• V-Dem 8 country codes (panel and cross-section)
• Fixed Netherlands Antilles test (ANT code retired by ISO)
• codelist_panel now excludes years where a country didn’t exist
• Scraping function for UN M49 codes. (Thanks to @cjyetman and @emilBeBri)
• nomatch = NULL now works as expected when sourcvar is a factor (#192 thanks to @jhuovari for reporting)

countrycode 1.0.0

• Huge thanks to @cjyetman for his incredible work on this major release!
• Country-Year (panel) conversion dictionary
• Dictionary built from original sources
• Liechtenstein should not be in eu28
• Russia eurocontrol region fix
• CLRD country names

countrycode 0.19.1

• Move to Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 http://semver.org/#semantic-versioning-specification-semver
• Fixed North Korea regex and added tests
• Fixed Sudan iso3n code
• Removed lookbehind from Ireland regex for javascript compatibility (request by plotly)
• Added nomatch argument

countrycode 0.19

New features

• “custom_dict” argument allows user-supplied dictionary data.frames
• “custom_match” argument allows a user-supplied named vector of custom origin->destination matches that will supercede any matching values in the default result (issue #107) (Thanks to @cjyetman)
• German, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and Arabic country names as destination codes
• German regular expression to convert from German names to codes. (Thanks to @sumtxt)
• Aviation codes (Thanks to Enrico Spinielli)
• ar5 and eu28 (Thanks to Niklas Roming)
• eurostat (Thanks to @cjyetman)
• 2 and 3 character codes for the World Bank API: wb_api2c and wb_api3c (Thanks to @cjyetman)
• alpha and numeric codes for Polity IV: p4_scode and p4_ccode (Thanks to @cjyetman)
• World Values Survey numeric code (Thanks to @cjyetman)

Regex fixes and improvements:

• Improved regex for Ireland and United States of America (Thanks to @cjyetman)
• D.R. Congo (found in WVS) matches Democratic Republic of the Congo (Thanks to @cjyetman)
• Southern Africa
• Federated States of Micronesia
• Republic of China == Taiwan (Thanks to Nils Enevoldsen)
• Martinique (Thanks to Martyn Plummer)
• Tahiti country name string converts to French Polynesia

Misc:

• Major speed-up in regex conversion by using factors (Thanks to @cjyetman)
• when more than one match is found for a given string, is returned rather than arbitrarily choosing the last match found (Thanks to @cjyetman)
• updated tests to new testthat convention (Thanks to @cjyetman)
• English country names are now official UN versions
• Better docs, examples, and README
• Taiwan FAO code is 214 (Thanks to Matthieu Stigler)

countrycode 0.18

• Nils Enevoldsen did wonderful work refactoring most of the regex in the dictionary.
• Nils also added a bunch of tests. Thanks!
• Added Tokelau

countrycode 0.17

• Added International Olympic Committee codes (Thanks to Devon Meunier)
• Bug: fips04 -> fips104 (Thanks to Florian Hollenbach)
• Complete FIPS104 codes (Thanks to Andy Halterman)
• Generic code name validity check (Thanks to Stefan Zeugner)
• Fixed IMF codes (Thanks to Stefan Zeugner)
• Regex fix to work better with Database of Political Insitutions (Thanks to Christopher Gandrud)
• Avoids confusion with Eq Guinea (Thanks to Christopher Gandrud)

countrycode 0.16

• Bug: NA cowc -> ABW (Thanks to Jon Mellon)

countrycode 0.15

• Regex fixes
  • Guinea
  • West Bank
  • Kitts / Christopher
  • Georgia / India
  • Mali
  • Sudan nigeria
  • Belgium
  • Korea Somalia
  • Oman

countrycode 0.14

• sint maarten typo

countrycode 0.13

• add sint maartin & curacao (thanks johnb30)

countrycode 0.12

• Missing wb codes filled-in using iso3c
• Added South Sudan
• Thanks to Rod Alence!

countrycode 0.11

• Vietnam cown
• Regexes:
  • Dominica / Dominican Republic
  • New Zealand / Aland

countrycode 0.10

• De-duplicate Sudan
• Niger vs. Nigeria regex

countrycode 0.9

• Fixed regexes: Mali, Korea, Oman, Dominica

countrycode 0.8

• Added World Bank (wb) country codes. Very similar, but slightly different from iso3c.

countrycode 0.7

• Removed useless functions countrycode.nomatch and countryframe
• Fixed 2 Congo-related problems
• Added option for countrycode() to report codes for which no match was found
• Moved documentation to roxygen2
• Fixed Trinidad Tobago regex
• Added UN and FAO country codes