Vincent Arel-Bundock

https://github.com/vincentarelbundock/countrycode/issues/313

Hi @clemdmcl , thanks for raising this issue. If you were previously able to extract information **using the exact same version of the WDI package**, then it means that the...

Thanks for the follow-up @clemdmcl . Since, again, nothing has changed in `WDI`, this (almost certainly) confirms that the problem is on the World Bank server side. Unfortunately, there's nothing...

I'm not sure about this one. The `+1?` seems a bit hackish, but it could be OK. I don't have the bandwidth right now to deal with the many-to-one issue...

That’s interesting. For what it’s worth, this seems to be the Unicode CLDR name: ``` r library(countrycode) countrycode("Trinidad and Tobago", "country.name", "cldr.short.es") #> [1] "Trinidad y Tobago" ```

ha! that's kind of cool

This is fascinating. It's amazing what info we can get by "just asking." Good stuff, thanks for sharing!

Was reviewing this, and I get a sense that there is no action to take here. Correct? Can close?

Got it, thanks! I commented out the lines where we changed it manually, but have been unable to re-run the `get_un_names.R` script because of this issue: https://github.com/vincentarelbundock/countrycode/issues/312

Reverted and tested here: a5d98a76b74688a5390698a8743131c1b96b13d