refresh_covid19nytimes_counties: US County Data from the NY Times

Description Usage Details Value Source Examples

View source: R/refresh_covid19nytimes.R

Description

Update the county-level data from the New York Times on Covid-19

Usage

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Details

Pulls from the open source data at https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-county-data-us.html including cumulative cases and deaths. Returns the data in the covid19R standard tidy format for easy use. Location data is returned as County,State. See https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data for extensive methodology description and license. Please follow the license guidelines at https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/blob/master/LICENSE if you plan to use the data for public display.

Value

A tibble object

Source

New York Times, "We’re Sharing Coronavirus Case Data for Every U.S. County" article and https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-datadata repository

covid19R documentation

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## Not run: 
# update the data
covid19nytimes_counties <- refresh_covid19nytimes_counties()

## End(Not run)

covid19nytimes documentation built on July 2, 2020, 4:15 a.m.