Check Germany names

Check the differences between the names (or codes) given in input and the names (or codes), of the corresponding selected Germany statistical unit.

Usage

checkNamesDE(id, unit = c("state", "district", "municipal", "municipality"), 
             matchWith = c("name", "code", "code_full"), return_logical = FALSE, 
             print = TRUE, use_internet = TRUE)

Arguments

id

character vector with names or codes

unit

the type of European statistical unit to check

matchWith

the type of id to check:

`"name"`	if unit names
`"code"`	if unit code
`"code_full"`	if unit complete code

return_logical

a logical value indicating whether nomatched id are returned.

print

a logical value indicating whether print the nomatched names

use_internet

a logical value indicating wheter the coordinates are downloaded from https://github.com/mappinguniverse/geospatial. If FALSE the maps downloaded during package installation will be used.

Details

The function provides a check between id name or code in the dataset and the corresponding selected Germany statistical unit. unit starts from the largest aggregate, "state", to the smallest, "municipality".

Value

Returns a string vector with nomatched names or a boolean vector indicating whether or not the id matched.

Author

Alessio Serafini

Examples

data("popDE")
ck <- checkNamesDE(popDE$code_state, unit = "state", matchWith = "code_full")
str(ck)
#>  chr(0)