Country names¶

The function countryname tries to convert country names from any language. For example:

library(countrycode)
x <- c('ジンバブエ', 'Afeganistãu',  'Barbadas', 'Sverige', 'UK',  
       'il-Georgia tan-Nofsinhar u l-Gżejjer Sandwich tan-Nofsinhar')

countryname(x)

[1] "Zimbabwe"                              
[2] "Afghanistan"                           
[3] "Barbados"                              
[4] "Sweden"                                
[5] "United Kingdom"                        
[6] "South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands"

countryname(x, 'iso3c')

[1] "ZWE" "AFG" "BRB" "SWE" "GBR" "SGS"