Republic of Kosovo (and derivations: Kosovo) returns NA for iso codes. Implement to return XK, XKK

[morrisseyj]

Republic of Kosovo (and derivations e.g. Kosovo) returns NA when destination is an iso code.

countrycode("Republic of Kosovo", "country.name", "iso3c")

and

countrycode("Republic of Kosovo", "country.name", "iso2c")

Both return:

[1] NA
Warning message:
Some values were not matched unambiguously: Republic of Kosovo

I appreciate that Kosovo only has partial diplomatic recognition, but its included as an IDA country and the World Bank has status in your package.

Could you implement to return XK or XKK?

[cjyetman]

Kosovo does not have an official ISO code (see https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#search/code/).

I suggest using the custom_match argument...

countrycode("Republic of Kosovo", "country.name", "iso3c", custom_match = c("Republic of Kosovo" = "XKK"))
#> [1] "XKK"

countrycode("Republic of Kosovo", "country.name", "iso2c", custom_match = c("Republic of Kosovo" = "XK"))
#> [1] "XK"

[vincentarelbundock]

I don't remember the details of the arguments, but this has been discussed several times. If you want to file a feature request, please read the past closed issue and formulate counter-arguments to what was discussed there. For example:

https://github.com/vincentarelbundock/countrycode/issues/305 https://github.com/vincentarelbundock/countrycode/issues/306 https://github.com/vincentarelbundock/countrycode/issues/61

[NilsEnevoldsen]

Kosovo is not listed at https://www.iso.org/obp/ui/#search/code/, so we won't include an ISO code for it.

If you want to link to a World Bank dataset, you can use the wb, wb_api2c, or wb_api3c destination codes.

[vincentarelbundock]

Hahah, I think we all answered at the exact same time. This wasn't meant to be a pile on ;-)

[morrisseyj]

Apologies, i missed all these closed issues. Thanks for the excellent package. I use it constantly.