Obtain country data matching language first one or more letters
Arguments
- char
character to search for
- full.list
whether to return only name of country or full list
See also
countryStartsWith for country search starting with specified characters, and [countryEndsWith()] for countries that end with a specified characters.
Examples
# task 1: get only names of countries that contains with "ER" or "er"
# note that the search in case-insensitive
countryHas("er", full.list = FALSE)
#> [1] "Algeria" "Azerbaijan" "Bosnia and Herzegovina"
#> [4] "Cape Verde" "Cameroon" "Eritrea"
#> [7] "Faeroe Islands" "Germany" "Liberia"
#> [10] "Netherlands" "Niger" "Nigeria"
#> [13] "Peru" "Serbia" "Sierra Leone"
#> [16] "Switzerland"
# task 2: get only names of countries that contains with "LAND" or "lAND" or "land"
countryHas("lAND", full.list = FALSE)
#> [1] "Faeroe Islands" "Falkland Islands" "Finland" "Iceland"
#> [5] "Ireland" "Netherlands" "New Zealand" "Poland"
#> [9] "Switzerland" "Thailand"
# task 3: repeat task 2, but return full list for each country
countryHas("many", full.list = TRUE)
#> $`1`
#> ID name currency symbol isocode fractionalunity officiallanguage
#> 69 10069 Germany Euro \200 EUR Cent German
#> population2023 callingcode continent capital
#> 69 84432670 49 Europe Berlin
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