GetFromECDC: Get Covid-19 Data From ECDC

In pablorm296/covidMex: Official SARS-CoV-2 Data for Mexico and the World

Description

Get Covid-19 situation report from the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control. This situation report includes new cases and deaths in all countries in the world.

Usage

  GetFromECDC(prefixURL = "https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/sites/default/files/documents/COVID-19-geographic-disbtribution-worldwide-",
  date = "today", fileExt = ".xlsx", auth = authenticate(user = ":",
  password = ":", type = "ntlm"), neat = TRUE)

Arguments

prefixURL	URL prefix for the HTTP request. character vector of length 1.
date	Date (version) of the report. character vector of length 1 or Date object. If character, date must be in day/month/year format.
fileExt	Target file extension in ECDC server character vector of length 1.
auth	Authentication information generated by authenticate. request object.
neat	Should data be cleaned (dates, state name, column names)? logical vector of length 1.

Value

A 'tibble' with 9 columns: Date, Day, Month, Year, New Cases, New Deaths, Country or Territory, Country ID, Country Population (World Bank 2018 Estimates).

pablorm296/covidMex documentation built on May 2, 2020, 4:56 p.m.