We have run into this issue before: you have 
increase the measurement error control for a reviewer’s favorite variable run some models.
Last week I was about to spend some time merging alphanumeric ISO codes with their COW counterparts, when I ran across the new countrycode package in R.* The package uses regular expressions to convert between the following supported formats:
- Correlates of War character
- CoW-numeric
- ISO3-character,
- ISO3-numeric
- ISO2-character
- IMF numeric
- FIPS 10-4
- FAO numeric
- United Nations numeric
- World Bank character
- official English short country names (ISO)
- continent
- region
The author is Vincent Arel-Bundock, a doctoral student in comparative politics at Michigan. Thanks Vincent!
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* New here meaning I didn’t know about it before and its documentation is dated Jan. 20, 2013.
Glad it’s useful!
Cheers!
Vince
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