NAs in un_region for national data

[TimTaylor]

library(covidregionaldata)
library(dplyr)
#> 
#> Attaching package: 'dplyr'
#> The following objects are masked from 'package:stats':
#> 
#>     filter, lag
#> The following objects are masked from 'package:base':
#> 
#>     intersect, setdiff, setequal, union

all_countries <- get_national_data()
all_countries %>% 
  filter(is.na(un_region)) %>% 
  group_by(country) %>% 
  tally()
#> # A tibble: 5 x 2
#>   country            n
#>   <chr>          <int>
#> 1 Greece           233
#> 2 Namibia          233
#> 3 Spain              1
#> 4 Taiwan           233
#> 5 United Kingdom   233

^{Created on 2020-08-19 by the reprex package (v0.3.0)}

[seabbs]

Thanks for this @tjtnew,

Standard check is this the CRAN or GitHub version? If CRAN could you check if you can reproduce using the GitHub version (out of sync due to CRAN overlords holidays).

[TimTaylor]

Github

[seabbs]

Ty - will check out.

[seabbs]

Chasing this down it appears to be an issue with ISO codes.

"The European Commission generally uses ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes with two exceptions: EL (not GR) is used to represent Greece, and UK (not GB) is used to represent the United Kingdom.[10] This notwithstanding, the Official Journal of the European Communities specified that GR and GB be used to represent Greece and United Kingdom respectively.[11] For VAT administration purposes, the European Commission uses EL and GB for Greece and the United Kingdom respectively."

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2

Looking into fixes now (maybe a manual code)