Users sometimes do not know what kind of code or field their data contain.
This function tries to guess by comparing the similarity between a
user-supplied vector and all the codes included in the countrycode
dictionary.
guess_field(codes, min_similarity = 80)a vector of country codes or country names
the function returns all field names where over than
min_similarity% of codes are shared between the supplied vector and the
countrycode dictionary.
# Guess ISO codes
guess_field(c('DZA', 'CAN', 'DEU'))
#> code percent_of_unique_matched
#> genc3c genc3c 100
#> iso3c iso3c 100
#> wb wb 100
#> wb_api3c wb_api3c 100
# Guess country names
guess_field(c('Guinea','Iran','Russia','North Korea',rep('Ivory Coast',50),'Scotland'))
#> code percent_of_unique_matched
#> cow.name cow.name 83.33333
#> vdem.name vdem.name 83.33333
#> cldr.variant.ceb cldr.variant.ceb 83.33333
#> cldr.variant.en cldr.variant.en 83.33333
#> cldr.variant.en_001 cldr.variant.en_001 83.33333
#> cldr.variant.en_au cldr.variant.en_au 83.33333