languageStartsWith {r2country}R Documentation

Fetch countries data based on official language prefix

Description

Obtain country data matching language first one or more letters

Usage

languageStartsWith(char, full.list = TRUE)

Arguments

char

character to search in languages

full.list

whether to return only name of country or full list

Value

language list or country data list matching parts of a character search on languages

See Also

countryStartsWith for country search starting with specified characters, and [countryEndsWith()] for countries that end with a specified characters.

Examples

# task 1: get only language names that ends with "EN" or "en"
# note that the search in case-insensitive
languageStartsWith("eN", full.list = FALSE)

# task 2: get only language names that ends with "chi"
languageStartsWith("chi", full.list = FALSE)

# task 3: repeat task 2, but return full list for each country with the language
languageStartsWith("sin", full.list = TRUE)

# searching text with no results
languageStartsWith("er", full.list = FALSE)


[Package r2country version 2.0.2.4.0 Index]