bug Eswatini / Swaziland

[LaurentSmeets]

I think the name change of Swaziland to Eswatini has not yet been properly implemented in either comtradr or the underlying API

This code gives an error

ct_search(reporters = "Ghana", 
                   partners = "Eswatini "
                   commod_codes = "all",
                   trade_direction = "exports",
                   start_date = "2018",
                   end_date =  "2018")
  

but this code does work

ct_search(reporters = "Ghana", 
                   partners = "Swaziland "
                   commod_codes = "all",
                   trade_direction = "exports",
                   start_date = "2018",
                   end_date =  "2018")
  

However, in the output Eswatini is mentioned as partner country

first line of output looks like this

   classification year period period_desc aggregate_level is_leaf_code trade_flow_code trade_flow reporter_code reporter reporter_iso partner_code  partner partner_iso second_partner_code second_partner
1              H5 2018   2018        2018               2            0               2     Export           288    Ghana          GHA          748 Eswatini         SWZ                  NA           <NA>

[ChrisMuir]

Hello, thank you for pointing this out. Yes Comtrade updated their countries database. I will push an update to the package data to the main branch today. In the meantime, you can run comtradr::ct_update_databases() to have the comtradr package pull down the latest countries database for local use.

[ChrisMuir]

Updated the countries pkg data in commit 3dee878.