countries 1.2.5

Updated package data to reflect the official change in Naoero's name and ISO code.

countries 1.2.4

Small adjustment to functions connecting to the internet to handle more gracefully failed connections

countries 1.2.3

Patch adjusting the functions country_info, list_fields and check_countries_api to make them compatible with v5 of REST countries' API. See https://restcountries.com/ for more information.

countries 1.2.2

Patch accommodating the new ggplot2 version

countries 1.2.1

• Fixed bug preventing connection to the countries REST API.

countries 1.2.0

• Added function check_countries_api to check whether connection to Countries REST API is working.
• Updated country reference table to improve matching of former Yugoslavian countries.
• Improved messages provided by country_name and match_table and added argument na_fill to replace potential NAs with the original country name.
• Updated vignettes

countries 1.1.2

• Improving handling of API connection errors in function country_info and list_fields
• Fixing bug in quick_map occurring when plot_col is identical to one of the columns in the table countries::world

countries 1.1.1

• Added function list_countries to obtain a list of countries
• Added function random_countries to obtain random country names
• Corrected small nomenclature mistake in the country reference list
• Added two new palettes to palettes_countries
• Updated vignettes

countries 1.0.5

• Code adapted to work with changes in behaviour of base::is.atomic()

First release on CRAN

First release on CRAN of countries, the package that facilitates working with country data.

countries includes functions for:

• hassle free conversion of country names;
• download country information;
• plot chloropleth maps;
• easily merge country data by dealing with different country names and date formats;
• and several other useful function!

Link to the package on CRAN:
https://cloud.r-project.org/web/packages/countries/index.html

Full Changelog: https://github.com/fbellelli/countries/commits/v1.0.3