Unify countrynames

Description

unifyCountrynames(inVec)

Arguments

inVec	A vector or character string of country name(s)

Value

A character vector containing the unified strings.

Warning

Do not operate heavy machinery within 8 hours of using this function.

Examples

x = c("Congo Kinshasa",
      "Congo, Republic of",
      "Congo Brazzaville",
      "Cote d`Ivoire",
      "Central African Rep.",
      "Cabo Verde",
      "Gambia, The")

 unifyCountrynames(x)
#> Warning: Paket ‘bindrcpp’ wurde unter R Version 3.4.4 erstellt
#> Warning: binding character and factor vector, coercing into character vector
#> Warning: binding character and factor vector, coercing into character vector
#> [1] "Congo, Dem. Rep."     "Congo (the)"          "Congo, Rep."         
#> [4] "Côte d'Ivoire"        "Central African Rep." "Cabo Verde"          
#> [7] "Gambia (the)"