New Spanish regular expressions and names:
country.name.es, cldr.name.es and
country.name.es. Thanks to @dieghernan for the contribution, and to
@NilsEnevoldsen and @cjyetman for review.
Misc regex improvements and testing. Thanks to @NilsEnevoldsen.
1.7.0
Add telephone as a new code from ITU-T E.164 country
codes for telecommunication.
Add coverage for historical Gleditsch & Ward polities (including
United Provinces of Central America, Transvaal, and Tibet) and
regression tests. Thanks to @JoeNoonan for Issue #320.
custom_match now suppresses ambiguity and
duplicate-match warnings for overridden values. Thanks to @victorhartman and
@NilsEnevoldsen for the report and
analysis (Issue #364).
Stricter Micronesia regular expressions. Thanks to @mattkerlogue, @stefgehrig, @cjyetman, @NilsEnevoldsen for
discussion in Issue #354.
TÜRKİYE (dotted capital İ) now matches Turkey. Thanks
to @cjyetman and
@NilsEnevoldsen for report #347.
Update many dictionaries to the latest versions from publishing
organizations. Thanks to @NilsEnevoldsen.
Improve Ireland regular expressions and add tests. Issue #313.
Improve Germany / East Germany regular expressions and add tests.
Issue #313.
Update ISO4217 currency codes. Thanks to @cjyetman.
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)
“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