Get country names from ISO3 country codes. — iso3_to

iso3_to_names() takes in a vector of ISO3 codes and returns names as specified by the user. Currently, this can be World Health Organization names, both short and formal, in all 6 official languages and United Nations names in all 6 official languages.

Usage

iso3_to_names(
  iso3,
  org = c("who", "un"),
  type = c("short", "formal"),
  language = c("en", "es", "ru", "ar", "zh", "fr")
)

Arguments

iso3: Character vector of ISO3 codes.
org: Official names of which organization to return. Can be either "who" (default) or "un".
type: "short" (default) or "formal" name to return. Only used when org is "who".
language: A character value specifying the language of the country names. Should be specified using the ISO2 language code. Defaults to "en", but matching available for all 6 official WHO languages. Possible values are "en", "es", "ar", "fr", "ru", and "zh".

Value

Character vector.