read_cases_ecdc: Reads COVID-19 cases and deaths from the ECDC

In jimtyhurst/covid19: COVID-19 Exploratory Data Analysis

Description

Reads a dataset with COVID-19 cases and deaths, which is maintained by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC).

Usage

read_cases_ecdc()

Details

• Reads an ECDC dataset of COVID-19 cases and deaths.

• Adds a date column of class Date, derived from the dateRep column, which is a string.

Value

tbl with 11 columns:

• date : (Date)

• dateRep : (character)

• day : (integer)

• month : (integer)

• year : (integer)

• cases : (integer)

• deaths : (integer) number of new deaths that occurred on the given day. This is not the cumulative total of deaths up to that day.

• countriesAndTerritories : (character)

• geoId : (character) 2-character ISO-3166 country code.

• countryterritoryCode : (character) 3-character ISO-3166 country code.

• popData2018 : (integer)

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