get_gdeltnews: get_gdeltnews

In CDCgov/SaviR: ITF Situational Awareness and Visualization

get_gdeltnews

Description

Get last 2 weeks of GDELT COVID news. Deduplicated by DateTime, URL, and DomainCountryCode.

Usage

get_gdeltnews(period = 14, start_date = Sys.Date() - 1)

Arguments

period	(numeric) Number of days to look back from start_date
start_date	(Date) Date from which to look back

Value

Returns a data frame with n rows and 16 columns, including:

• DateTime POSIXct

• URL character

• Title character

• SharingImage character

• LangCode character

• DocTone double

• DomainCountryCode character

• Location character

• Lat double

• Lon double

• iso2code character

• Adm1Code character

• GeoType character

• ContextualText character

• GeoCoord character

• Adm2Code character

Note

Function may fail if start date is set to current date or in future. News data files aren't often avilable for the current date.

Examples

## Not run: 
gdeltnews_df <- get_gdeltnews()

## End(Not run)

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