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]