geoparser

The goal of the R package geoparser is to detect country names in a text document (e.g. a PDF file imported with the R package pdftools).

Installation

You can install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("frbcesab/geoparser")

Then you can attach the package geoparser:

library("geoparser")

Overview

The package geoparser contains the function geoparser() used to detect countries listed in the internal dataset world_countries.

The function geoparser() returns a data.frame with the following columns:

• geographic_entity: the name of the country according to GADM;
• n_pages: the total number of pages in the document;
• page: the page number;
• count: the occurrence of the country for a given page.

Example:

geographic_entity	n_pages	page	count
Canada	11	1	2
Canada	11	2	5
United States	11	3	1
Canada	11	3	5
United States	11	4	1
United States	11	5	1
Canada	11	9	1
Denmark	11	10	1
United Kingdom	11	10	2
United States	11	10	2
Canada	11	10	5
Australia	11	11	1
Bangladesh	11	11	1
Estonia	11	11	1
Canada	11	11	2
United Kingdom	11	11	2
United States	11	11	5

Citation

Please cite this package as:

Casajus Nicolas (2023) geoparser: An R package to detect country names in documents. R package version 0.1. https://frbcesab.github.io/geoparser.

Code of Conduct

Please note that the geoparser project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.