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  • 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

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