In RamiKrispin/covid19Italy: The 2019 Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Italy Dataset

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The covid19italy R package provides a tidy format dataset of the 2019 Novel Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) pandemic outbreak in Italy. The package includes the following three datasets:

• italy_total - daily summary of the outbreak on the national level
• italy_region - daily summary of the outbreak on the region level
• italy_province - daily summary of the outbreak on the province level

The data was pull from Italy Department of Civil Protection

Installation

You can install the released version of covid19italy from CRAN with:

install.packages("covid19italy")

Or, install the most recent version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("RamiKrispin/covid19Italy")

Data refresh

The covid19italy package dev version is been updated on a daily bases. The update_data function enables a simple refresh of the installed package datasets with the most updated version on Github:

library(covid19italy)

update_data()

Note: must restart the R session to have the updates available

Italy summary

The italy_total dataset provides an overall summary of the cases in Italy since the beginning of the covid19 outbreak since February 24, 2020. The dataset contains the following fields:

• date - timestamp, a Date object
• hospitalized_with_symptoms - daily number of patients hospitalized with symptoms
• intensive_care - daily number of patients on intensive care
• total_hospitalized - daily total number of patients hospitalized (hospitalized_with_symptoms + intensive_care)
• home_confinement - daily number of people under home confinement
• cumulative_positive_cases - a daily snapshot of the number of positive cases
• daily_positive_cases - daily new positive cases
• daily_cases - daily new positive, recovered, and death cases
• recovered - total number of recovered cases (cumulative)
• death - total number of death cases (cumulative)
• positive_clinical_activity - positive cases emerged from clinical activity
• positive_surveys_tests - positive cases emerging from surveys and tests, planned at national or regional level
• cumulative_cases - total number of positive cases (cumulative)
• total_tests - total number of tests performed (cumulative)

library(covid19italy)

data(italy_total)

str(italy_total)

head(italy_total)

Italy region level

The italy_region dataset provides an overall summary of the cases in Italy's regions. The dataset contains the following fields:

• date - timestamp, a Date object
• region_code - the region code
• region_name - the region name
• lat - region latitude coordinate
• long - region longitude coordinate
• hospitalized_with_symptoms - daily number of patients hospitalized with symptoms
• intensive_care - daily number of patients on intensive care
• total_hospitalized - daily total number of patients hospitalized (hospitalized_with_symptoms + intensive_care)
• home_confinement - daily number of people under home confinement
• cumulative_positive_cases - a daily snapshot of the number of positive cases
• daily_positive_cases - daily new positive cases
• daily_cases - daily new positive, recovered, and death cases
• recovered - total number of recovered cases (cumulative)
• death - total number of death cases (cumulative)
• positive_clinical_activity - positive cases emerged from clinical activity
• positive_surveys_tests - positive cases emerging from surveys and tests, planned at national or regional level
• cumulative_cases - total number of positive cases, recovered, and death (cumulative)
• total_tests - total number of tests performed (cumulative)
• region_spatial - the spatial region names as in the output of the ne_states function from the rnaturalearth package

data(italy_region)

str(italy_region)

head(italy_region)

Italy province level

The italy_region dataset provides an overall summary of the cases in Italy's regions. The dataset contains the following fields:

• date - timestamp, a Date object
• region_code - the region code
• region_name - the region name
• province_code - the province code
• province_name - the province name
• province_abb - the province abbreviation
• lat - province latitude coordinate
• long - province longitude coordinate
• total_cases - total number of positive cases (cumulative)
• new_tests - daily number of positive cases
• province_spatial - the spatial province names as in the output of the ne_states function from the rnaturalearth package

data(italy_province)

str(italy_province)

head(italy_province)

RamiKrispin/covid19Italy documentation built on April 8, 2023, 10:17 a.m.