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ISO3 to 7 continents names

3 messages · Miluji Sb, Barry Rowlingson, Matt Landis

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Dear all.

Is it possible to convert.identify iso3 country names to the seven
continent names?

# Asia, Africa, Antarctica, Australia, Europe, South America, and North
America,

I have tried the following:

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region <- merge(countryExData,df,by.x='ISO3V10',by.y='iso3')

where df is the name of my dataset with iso3 the identification variable
but there seems to be a a lot of missing values.

Thank you!

Sincerely,

Milu
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On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 7:35 PM, Miluji Sb <milujisb at gmail.com> wrote:

            
Hard to help you here without seeing at least some of your data, or at
least the rows that didn't match. Maybe you've got invalid codes in your
data? How can we tell?

Also, you should say where countryExData comes from, I had to guess it was
from the rworldmap package. That data frame doesn't have the "continent" in
it, so what use is it to you?

Barry
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For matching up country names, it's hard to beat the package "countrycode".  It allows conversion across many different country codes and country names, and it also has continents.

Matt



-----Original Message-----
From: R-sig-Geo [mailto:r-sig-geo-bounces at r-project.org] On Behalf Of Barry Rowlingson
Sent: Friday, September 8, 2017 4:28 AM
To: Miluji Sb <milujisb at gmail.com>
Cc: R-sig-geo mailing list <r-sig-geo at r-project.org>
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] ISO3 to 7 continents names
On Thu, Sep 7, 2017 at 7:35 PM, Miluji Sb <milujisb at gmail.com> wrote:

            
Hard to help you here without seeing at least some of your data, or at least the rows that didn't match. Maybe you've got invalid codes in your data? How can we tell?

Also, you should say where countryExData comes from, I had to guess it was from the rworldmap package. That data frame doesn't have the "continent" in it, so what use is it to you?

Barry


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