The stable release of this package is hosted on CRAN. The development version is available at Github.
Install the package:
install.packages("COVID19")
Load the package
library("COVID19")
The only function in the package is covid19()
.
By default, the function downloads worldwide data by country:
x <- covid19()
The argument level
specifies the granularity of the data:
Download worldwide data by state:
x <- covid19(level = 2)
The argument country
filters the data by country. This is a vector of country names or ISO codes (ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 code, Alpha-3 code, or numeric code).
Download data for Italy and Unites States at county/province level:
x <- covid19(country = c("Italy", "US"), level = 3)
The arguments start
and end
specify the period of interest. The data are subsetted to match this time range.
Download national-level data for United States from 01 October 2021 to 01 November 2021:
x <- covid19("US", start = "2021-10-01", end = "2021-11-01")
The parameter vintage
allows to retrieve the snapshot of the dataset that was available on the given date. This typically differs from subsetting the latest data, as most governments are updating the data retroactively. Available since 14 April, 2020.
Retrieve the data that were available on 15 May, 2020:
x <- covid19(vintage = "2020-05-15")
The argument dir
specifies the folder where the data files are to be downloaded. By default this is a temporary folder.
Download the files in the folder data
:
dir.create("data") x <- covid19(dir = "data")
Country-level covariates by World Bank Open Data can be added via the argument wb
. This is a character vector of indicator codes to download. The codes can be found by inspecting the corresponding URL. For example, the code of the indicator "Hospital beds (per 1,000 people)" available at https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SH.MED.BEDS.ZS is SH.MED.BEDS.ZS
. The indicators are typically available at a yearly frequency. This function returns the latest data available between the start
and the end
date. See the table at the bottom of this page for suggested indicators. Example using GDP and number of hospital beds:
x <- covid19(wb = c("gdp" = "NY.GDP.MKTP.CD", "hosp_beds" = "SH.MED.BEDS.ZS"))
Mobility data by Google Mobility Reports can be added via the argument gmr
. This is the link to the Google "CSV by geographic area" ZIP folder. At the time of writing, the link is https://www.gstatic.com/covid19/mobility/Region_Mobility_Report_CSVs.zip. As the link has been stable since the beginning of the pandemic, the function accepts gmr=TRUE
to automatically use this link.
x <- covid19(gmr = TRUE)
Mobility data by Apple Mobility Reports can be added via the argument amr
. This is the link to the Apple "All CSV data" file. This link is changing constantly. Consider downloading the data file from the website first, and then set amr="path/to/file.csv"
. Since v3.0.1 of the package, if amr=TRUE
is provided, the function tries to detect the latest URL from this endpoint.
x <- covid19(amr = TRUE)
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