Not matching for Turkey's new official name

[hgoers]

Hello all,

Thank you so much for countrycode. I use it almost every day to support my work and research.

I noticed a small issue resulting from the recent official name change for Turkey. The current regex does not pick up this new name: Türkiye.

Reprex:

countrycode::countrycode("Türkiye", "country.name", "country.name")

Warning thrown:

Warning message:
In countrycode_convert(sourcevar = sourcevar, origin = origin, destination = dest,  :
  Some values were not matched unambiguously: Türkiye

I was able to convert it with the rather crude turkey|türkiye|turkiye.

Thanks!

[vincentarelbundock]

The default regexes are designed to pick up English names. You could try then countryname() which tries to do more clever stuff

[NilsEnevoldsen]

I agree with the issue. Türkiye is going to be seen in English more often now.

[hgoers]

My understanding is that Türkiye is to be used in English and French (I am not sure about other languages). It would be really useful if countrycode::countrycode could either convert Turkey to Türkiye (and Turquie to Türkiye) to reflect this new official name, or if the country.name.X.regex picked up Türkiye and converted it to Turkey (Turquie).

[vincentarelbundock]

Ah thanks for the clarification! I agree we should make that change.

I'm on vacation now but will be happy to make the change when I return in a few weeks if no one has gotten to it yet.

Thanks for the report!

[hgoers]

Thanks so much for a fantastic package!