LoadBelgium: LoadBelgium

In sjbeckett/subregionalcovid19: Processing and mapping COVID-19 case data at subnational scales

LoadBelgium

Description

Reads in subnational data for Belgium to calculate most recent estimate of per capita active COVID-19 cases. Use with LoadData() is recommended.

Usage

LoadBelgium()

Value

A simple feature returning the date of most recent data (DateReport), a unique region code (geoid), the region name (RegionName) and country name (Country), the number of active cases per capita (pInf) and the regions geometry (geometry).

Note

Data was obtained from Sciensano, the Belgian institute for health: https://epistat.wiv-isp.be/covid/. We note that this function needs to read files corresponding to daily reports (some of which may not exist),

See Also

LoadData()

Examples

## Not run: 
Belgium <- LoadBelgium()

## End(Not run)

sjbeckett/subregionalcovid19 documentation built on Feb. 7, 2023, 6 a.m.