This function is basic for a user to manually fix some country name inconsistencies.
countryNameCleanR(data = NULL, ISO2_table = NULL, commonProblems = NULL)A data frame or tibble. Occurrence records as input.
A data frame or tibble with the columns ISO2 and long names for country names. Default is a static version from Wikipedia.
A data frame or tibble. It must have two columns: one containing the user-identified problem and one with a user-defined fix
Returns the input data, but with countries occurring in the user-supplied problem column ("commonProblems") replaced with those in the user-supplied fix column
beesFlagged_out <- countryNameCleanR(
data = BeeBDC::beesFlagged,
commonProblems = dplyr::tibble(problem = c('U.S.A.', 'US','USA','usa','UNITED STATES',
'United States','U.S.A','MX','CA','Bras.','Braz.',
'Brasil','CNMI','USA TERRITORY: PUERTO RICO'),
fix = c('United States of America','United States of America',
'United States of America','United States of America',
'United States of America','United States of America',
'United States of America','Mexico','Canada','Brazil',
'Brazil','Brazil','Northern Mariana Islands','PUERTO.RICO')))
#> - Using default country names and codes from https:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 - static version from July 2022.