read_deaths_jhu_csse: Reads cumulative total of COVID-19 deaths.

In jimtyhurst/covid19: COVID-19 Exploratory Data Analysis

Description

Reads cumulative total of COVID-19 deaths by day from a public dataset published by Johns Hopkins University (JHU).

Usage

read_deaths_jhu_csse()

Details

• Reads a JHU CSSE data file, time_series_19-covid-Deaths.csv, of deaths from the COVID-19 disease.

• Reformats data as a tidy dataset.

• Reformats the column names to snake case.

Value

tbl with 6 columns:

• country_region : (character)

• province_state : (character)

• lat : (numeric) latitude

• long : (numeric) longitude

• date : (Date)

• cumulative_total : (integer) total number of deaths that occurred up to and including the given date.

Note: The country data for the United States and most other countries is not sub-divided by province_state, so that column has many NA values.

jimtyhurst/covid19 documentation built on Aug. 30, 2020, 3:39 p.m.