Get continent name from country name in R

Question

I have a data frame with one column representing country names. My goal is to add one more column which gives the continent information. Please check the following use case:

Answer 1

You can use the countrycode package for this task.

library(countrycode)
df <- data.frame(country = c("Afghanistan",
                             "Algeria",
                             "USA",
                             "France",
                             "New Zealand",
                             "Fantasyland"))

df$continent <- countrycode(sourcevar = df[, "country"],
                            origin = "country.name",
                            destination = "continent")
#warning
#In countrycode(sourcevar = df[, "country"], origin = "country.name",  :
#  Some values were not matched unambiguously: Fantasyland

Result

df
#      country continent
#1 Afghanistan      Asia
#2     Algeria    Africa
#3         USA  Americas
#4      France    Europe
#5 New Zealand   Oceania
#6 Fantasyland