Obtain country data matching language first one or more letters
Usage
byContinent(
name = c("asia", "europe", "africa", "north america", "south america", "oceania"),
full.list = TRUE
)Details
Note that choices for names of continent includes 'asia','europe','africa','north america','south america','oceania'
Examples
# task 1: get only names of countries that contains with "africa" or "AFrica"
# note that the search in case-insensitive
byContinent("africa", full.list = FALSE)
#> [1] "Algeria" "Angola"
#> [3] "Benin" "Botswana"
#> [5] "Burkina Faso" "Burundi"
#> [7] "Cape Verde" "Cameroon"
#> [9] "Central African Republic" "Chad"
#> [11] "Comoros" "DR Congo"
#> [13] "Congo" "Côte d'Ivoire"
#> [15] "Djibouti" "Egypt"
#> [17] "Equatorial Guinea" "Eritrea"
#> [19] "Eswatini" "Ethiopia"
#> [21] "Gabon" "Gambia"
#> [23] "Ghana" "Guinea"
#> [25] "Guinea-Bissau" "Kenya"
#> [27] "Lesotho" "Liberia"
#> [29] "Libya" "Madagascar"
#> [31] "Malawi" "Mali"
#> [33] "Mauritania" "Mauritius"
#> [35] "Morocco" "Mozambique"
#> [37] "Namibia" "Niger"
#> [39] "Nigeria" "Rwanda"
#> [41] "Saint Helena" "Sao Tome & Principe"
#> [43] "Senegal" "Seychelles"
#> [45] "Sierra Leone" "Somalia"
#> [47] "South Africa" "South Sudan"
#> [49] "Sudan" "Tanzania"
#> [51] "Togo" "Tunisia"
#> [53] "Uganda" "Zambia"
#> [55] "Zimbabwe"
# task 2: get only names of countries that contains with "ASIA" or "asia"
byContinent("asia", full.list = FALSE)
#> [1] "Afghanistan" "Armenia" "Azerbaijan"
#> [4] "Bahrain" "Bangladesh" "Bhutan"
#> [7] "Brunei" "Cambodia" "China"
#> [10] "East Timor" "Georgia" "Hong Kong"
#> [13] "India" "Indonesia" "Iran"
#> [16] "Iraq" "Israel" "Japan"
#> [19] "Jordan" "Kazakhstan" "Kuwait"
#> [22] "Kyrgyzstan" "Laos" "Lebanon"
#> [25] "Macau" "Malaysia" "Maldives"
#> [28] "Mongolia" "Myanmar" "Nepal"
#> [31] "North Korea" "Oman" "Pakistan"
#> [34] "Philippines" "Qatar" "Russia"
#> [37] "Saudi Arabia" "Singapore" "South Korea"
#> [40] "Sri Lanka" "Palestine" "Syria"
#> [43] "Taiwan" "Tajikistan" "Thailand"
#> [46] "Turkey" "Turkmenistan" "United Arab Emirates"
#> [49] "Uzbekistan" "Vietnam" "Yemen"
# task 3: repeat task 2, but return full list for each country
byContinent("europe", full.list = TRUE)
#> $`1`
#> name continent
#> 2 Albania Europe
#>
#> $`2`
#> name continent
#> 4 Andorra Europe
#>
#> $`3`
#> name continent
#> 10 Austria Europe
#>
#> $`4`
#> name continent
#> 17 Belarus Europe
#>
#> $`5`
#> name continent
#> 18 Belgium Europe
#>
#> $`6`
#> name continent
#> 23 Bosnia and Herzegovina Europe
#>
#> $`7`
#> name continent
#> 27 Bulgaria Europe
#>
#> $`8`
#> name continent
#> 44 Croatia Europe
#>
#> $`9`
#> name continent
#> 46 Cyprus Europe
#>
#> $`10`
#> name continent
#> 47 Czech Republic Europe
#>
#> $`11`
#> name continent
#> 48 Denmark Europe
#>
#> $`12`
#> name continent
#> 58 Estonia Europe
#>
#> $`13`
#> name continent
#> 61 Faeroe Islands Europe
#>
#> $`14`
#> name continent
#> 64 Finland Europe
#>
#> $`15`
#> name continent
#> 65 France Europe
#>
#> $`16`
#> name continent
#> 68 Georgia Europe & Asia
#>
#> $`17`
#> name continent
#> 69 Germany Europe
#>
#> $`18`
#> name continent
#> 71 Gibraltar Europe
#>
#> $`19`
#> name continent
#> 72 Greece Europe
#>
#> $`20`
#> name continent
#> 81 Hungary Europe
#>
#> $`21`
#> name continent
#> 82 Iceland Europe
#>
#> $`22`
#> name continent
#> 87 Ireland Europe
#>
#> $`23`
#> name continent
#> 88 Isle of Man Europe
#>
#> $`24`
#> name continent
#> 90 Italy Europe
#>
#> $`25`
#> name continent
#> 96 Kosovo Europe
#>
#> $`26`
#> name continent
#> 100 Latvia Europe
#>
#> $`27`
#> name continent
#> 105 Liechtenstein Europe
#>
#> $`28`
#> name continent
#> 106 Lithuania Europe
#>
#> $`29`
#> name continent
#> 107 Luxembourg Europe
#>
#> $`30`
#> name continent
#> 114 Malta Europe
#>
#> $`31`
#> name continent
#> 118 Moldova Europe
#>
#> $`32`
#> name continent
#> 119 Monaco Europe
#>
#> $`33`
#> name continent
#> 121 Montenegro Europe
#>
#> $`34`
#> name continent
#> 127 Netherlands Europe
#>
#> $`35`
#> name continent
#> 133 North Macedonia Europe
#>
#> $`36`
#> name continent
#> 134 Norway Europe
#>
#> $`37`
#> name continent
#> 141 Poland Europe
#>
#> $`38`
#> name continent
#> 142 Portugal Europe
#>
#> $`39`
#> name continent
#> 144 Romania Europe
#>
#> $`40`
#> name continent
#> 145 Russia Europe & Asia
#>
#> $`41`
#> name continent
#> 151 San Marino Europe
#>
#> $`42`
#> name continent
#> 155 Serbia Europe
#>
#> $`43`
#> name continent
#> 159 Slovakia Europe
#>
#> $`44`
#> name continent
#> 160 Slovenia Europe
#>
#> $`45`
#> name continent
#> 165 Spain Europe
#>
#> $`46`
#> name continent
#> 170 Sweden Europe
#>
#> $`47`
#> name continent
#> 171 Switzerland Europe
#>
#> $`48`
#> name continent
#> 180 Turkey Europe & Asia
#>
#> $`49`
#> name continent
#> 183 Ukraine Europe
#>
#> $`50`
#> name continent
#> 185 United Kingdom Europe
#>