NEWS in package ‘countrycode’

Changes in version 1.4.0

Detect French country names using regular expressions: origin = "country.name.fr" (Thanks to Samuel Meichtry)
Detect Italian country names using regular expressions: origin = "country.name.it" (Thanks to Samuel Meichtry)

Changes in version 1.3.1

New code: unhcr

Changes in version 1.3.0

destination argument accepts a vector of strings and tries one after the other
countryname(warn=TRUE) by default
better class checks
countryname defaults to country.name.en for missing country names (nomatch=NULL)
Vietnam: better regex and support for vdem
Namibia fixes: eurostat, genc2c, wb_api2c, ecb
Various regex improvements
Congo French disambiguation

Changes in version 1.2.0

New 'countryname' function converts country names from any language (thanks to @davidsjoberg)
New guess_field function guesses which code a vector uses
Bug in dict build inserted NA in region variable (Thanks to M. Pascariu)
Added region23 with the old, more granular regions
Added unicode.symbol, which converts to emoji flags
Added ISO 4217 currency name, alpha, and numeric codes
Added UN region codes and names
Added IANA ccTLD codes
Improved various regexes

Changes in version 1.1.3

Added Demographic and Health Surveys (thanks to @mcooper)

Changes in version 1.1.2

Updated World Bank regions with manual additions

Changes in version 1.1.1

Bug: Typo prevented users for using "p4n" as origin code
Fixed bad icao.region codes (Thanks to @espinielli)
Added country name "United Arab Republic" and its regex (Thanks to Gina Reynolds)
Added SOM to wb code (Thanks to Fabian Besche)
Added Vietnam to codelist_panel

Changes in version 1.1.0

Gleditsch and Ward codes (Thanks to Altaf Ali)
V-Dem 8 country codes (panel and cross-section)
Fixed Netherlands Antilles test (ANT code retired by ISO)
codelist_panel now excludes years where a country didn't exist
Scraping function for UN M49 codes. (Thanks to @cjyetman and @emilBeBri)
nomatch = NULL now works as expected when sourcvar is a factor (#192 thanks to @jhuovari for reporting)

Changes in version 1.0.0

Huge thanks to @cjyetman for his incredible work on this major release!
Country-Year (panel) conversion dictionary
Dictionary built from original sources
Liechtenstein should not be in eu28
Russia eurocontrol region fix
CLRD country names

Changes in version 0.19.1

Move to Semantic Versioning 2.0.0 http://semver.org/#semantic-versioning-specification-semver
Fixed North Korea regex and added tests
Fixed Sudan iso3n code
Removed lookbehind from Ireland regex for javascript compatibility (request by plotly)
Added nomatch argument

Changes in version 0.19

New features

"custom_dict" argument allows user-supplied dictionary data.frames
"custom_match" argument allows a user-supplied named vector of custom origin->destination matches that will supercede any matching values in the default result (issue #107) (Thanks to @cjyetman)
German, French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese, and Arabic country names as destination codes
German regular expression to convert from German names to codes. (Thanks to @sumtxt)
Aviation codes (Thanks to Enrico Spinielli)
ar5 and eu28 (Thanks to Niklas Roming)
eurostat (Thanks to @cjyetman)
2 and 3 character codes for the World Bank API: wb_api2c and wb_api3c (Thanks to @cjyetman)
alpha and numeric codes for Polity IV: p4_scode and p4_ccode (Thanks to @cjyetman)
World Values Survey numeric code (Thanks to @cjyetman)

Regex fixes and improvements:

Improved regex for Ireland and United States of America (Thanks to @cjyetman)
D.R. Congo (found in WVS) matches Democratic Republic of the Congo (Thanks to @cjyetman)
Southern Africa
Federated States of Micronesia
Republic of China == Taiwan (Thanks to Nils Enevoldsen)
Martinique (Thanks to Martyn Plummer)
Tahiti country name string converts to French Polynesia

Misc:

Major speed-up in regex conversion by using factors (Thanks to @cjyetman)
when more than one match is found for a given string, is returned rather than arbitrarily choosing the last match found (Thanks to @cjyetman)
updated tests to new testthat convention (Thanks to @cjyetman)
English country names are now official UN versions
Better docs, examples, and README
Taiwan FAO code is 214 (Thanks to Matthieu Stigler)

Changes in version 0.18

Nils Enevoldsen did wonderful work refactoring most of the regex in the dictionary.
Nils also added a bunch of tests. Thanks!
Added Tokelau

Changes in version 0.17

Added International Olympic Committee codes (Thanks to Devon Meunier)
Bug: fips04 -> fips104 (Thanks to Florian Hollenbach)
Complete FIPS104 codes (Thanks to Andy Halterman)
Generic code name validity check (Thanks to Stefan Zeugner)
Fixed IMF codes (Thanks to Stefan Zeugner)
Regex fix to work better with Database of Political Insitutions (Thanks to Christopher Gandrud)
Avoids confusion with Eq Guinea (Thanks to Christopher Gandrud)

Changes in version 0.16

Bug: NA cowc -> ABW (Thanks to Jon Mellon)

Changes in version 0.15

Regex fixes
- Guinea
- West Bank
- Kitts / Christopher
- Georgia / India
- Mali
- Sudan nigeria
- Belgium
- Korea Somalia
- Oman

Changes in version 0.14

sint maarten typo

Changes in version 0.13

add sint maartin & curacao (thanks johnb30)

Changes in version 0.12

Missing wb codes filled-in using iso3c
Added South Sudan
Thanks to Rod Alence!

Changes in version 0.11

Vietnam cown
Regexes:
- Dominica / Dominican Republic
- New Zealand / Aland

Changes in version 0.10

De-duplicate Sudan
Niger vs. Nigeria regex

Changes in version 0.9

Fixed regexes: Mali, Korea, Oman, Dominica

Changes in version 0.8

Added World Bank (wb) country codes. Very similar, but slightly different from iso3c.

Changes in version 0.7

Removed useless functions countrycode.nomatch and countryframe
Fixed 2 Congo-related problems
Added option for countrycode() to report codes for which no match was found
Moved documentation to roxygen2
Fixed Trinidad Tobago regex
Added UN and FAO country codes