get_JHUCSSE_data: Pull JHU CSSE GitHub data

In HopkinsIDD/covidImportation: Estimating the Number of Imported COVID-19 Cases

Description

Pulls the JHUCSSE total case count data up to current date from GitHub. This version checks what is already saved, and downloads those that are not.

Usage

get_JHUCSSE_data(
  case_data_dir = "data/case_data",
  last_date = Sys.time(),
  save_data = FALSE,
  us_data_only = TRUE,
  append_wiki = TRUE
)

Arguments

case_data_dir	directory where daily reported case data files are stored by the function.
last_date	last date for which to include case data
save_data	whether to save raw data locally
us_data_only	whether to only pull US data
append_wiki	TRUE/FALSE whether to append the data from wikipedia for early china

Value

NA (saves a CSV of the current data to the data directory)

HopkinsIDD/covidImportation documentation built on Sept. 14, 2020, 2:43 p.m.