Country code and name details and documentation

A codebook data.frame of codes and details for country code and name conversions available. Contains Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) language tags (e.g. "en-nz" for New Zealand English) for Unicode Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) names, similar approximations for institutional names (e.g. "en-iso"), and short names (e.g. "iso2c") for country codes.

codes

Format

A data.frame of 427 rows and 9 variables.

Variables:

column: The column name in the internal passport:::countries data.frame. Valid for use in from and to parameters.
code: column with hyphens for underscores, which is a valid IANA language tag for Unicode CLDR country names. Valid for use in from and to parameters.
name: Full name or code name for non-CLDR options.
notes: Things to note, including deprecations, oddities, etc.
language: Full language name parsed from code.
region: Full country or region name parsed from code.
script: Full language script name parsed from code.
variant: Full variant parsed from code. Also used for organization-standardized names.
extension: Further specification of name type.

All functions can accept codes separated with underscores _, hyphens -, or periods ..

# A searchable widget to find a code or name
if (requireNamespace("DT", quietly = TRUE)) {
    DT::datatable(codes)
}