'Germany' used inconsistently as value for country.name.en

[smoser11]

Howdy. I'm sorry if I'm being dense, but why are West Germany ( German Federal Republic , cown= 260) given the same English -- and German -- name of post-unification Germany (Germany, cown = 255) ? This seems to introduce unnecessary ambiguity in the codelist_panel data included in the package. The countrycode package does (correctly) treat East Germany (German Democratic Republic, cown = 265) separate from 'Germany.'

Is there a reason for this?

[vincentarelbundock]

The panel build script is here: https://github.com/vincentarelbundock/countrycode/blob/main/dictionary/build.R#L68

I'd be happy to merge a pull request if you have improvements to suggest. ;-)