R: ISO 3166 Country Codes

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## ISO 3166 Country Codes

### Description

International Organization for Standardization (ISO) codes for the representation of names of countries and their subdivisions. Consists of three parts. Part 1: Country codes, defines codes for country and dependent area names. Part 2: Country subdivision code, defines codes for the principal subdivisions of a country or dependent area. Part 3: Code for formerly used names of countries, defines codes for superseded ISO 3166-1 codes.

### Usage

    ISO_3166_1
    ISO_3166_2
    ISO_3166_3

### Format

`ISO_3166_1` is a character frame with variables `Alpha_2`, `Alpha_3`, and `Numeric` (giving the two-letter, three-letter and three-digit numeric country codes) and `Name`, `Official_name`, and `Common_name` (giving the respective names).

`ISO_3166_2` is a character frame with variables `Code`, `Type`, `Name`, and `Parent`, giving the code, type and name of the subdivision, and a parent subdivision in case this is different from the country.

`ISO_3166_3` is a character frame with variables `Alpha_4` (the 4-letter code of the retired country), `Alpha_3`, `Numeric`, and `Name` (the original 3166-1 code elements of the country), and `Date_withdrawn` and `Comment`.

### Source

Converted from JSON files provided by Debian's iso-codes package (http://pkg-isocodes.alioth.debian.org/).

### References

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_3166

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