R for the Rest of Us - Mapping with R - Disambiguating country names with {countrycode}

mapview-gapminder-lifeExp.R

library(tidyverse)
library(sf)
library(rnaturalearthdata)
library(countrycode)
library(gapminder)
library(mapview)

gapminder_2007 <- gapminder %>% 
  filter(year == 2007)

gapminder_2007 <- gapminder_2007 %>% 
  mutate(iso_3c = countryname(country, "iso3c"))

countries_sf <- countries110 %>%
  st_as_sf()

countries_sf %>% 
  left_join(gapminder_2007,
            by = c("iso_a3" = "iso_3c")) %>% 
  mapview(zcol = "lifeExp")