# Deal with Country Data in an Easy Way

## Documentation for package ‘countries’ version 1.2.3

- DESCRIPTION file.
- User guides, package vignettes and other documentation.
- Package NEWS.

## Help Pages

auto_melt | Automatic pivoting of country and year columns to a long format
auto_merge | Simplified merging supporting different country nomenclatures and date formats
check_countries_api | Check if the connection to Countries REST API is working
check_wide_format | Check for wide country data formats
country_info | Get information about countries
country_name | Convert and translate country names
country_reference_list | Conversion table
country_reference_list_long | Conversion table in long format
find_countrycol | Finds columns containing country names
find_keycol | Find a set of columns that uniquely identifies table entries
find_timecol | Finds columns containing date and year data
is_country | Tests whether a string is a country name
is_date | Test whether the input is a date
is_keycol | Test whether a set of column could be a data frame key
list_countries | Get a list of country names
list_fields | List of accepted fields for the function country_info
match_table | Create a conversion table for country names
Mode | Statistical mode of a vector
palettes_countries | Discrete colour palettes
quick_map | Easily visualise country data with a map
random_countries | Output random country names
which_max | Return location of minimum, maximum and mode values' index
which_min | Return location of minimum, maximum and mode values' index
which_mode | Return location of minimum, maximum and mode values' index
world | World map data