importCovidData: Import Covid Data

In smorsink1/ncov2019: Import and Visualize COVID-19, Zika, and SARS Data

Description

Imports data from public github repo on Covid cases by date and location (with latitude and longitude), reformats, cleans, and merges with population data

Usage

importCovidData(from_web = TRUE)

Arguments

from_web

defaults to TRUE: whether to import from the web or from the package

Value

Output is a dataframe with columns for disease (covid), province (location specific), region (location general), lat (latitude), long (longitude), date, value, value_type, pop_2018

Examples

importCovidData()                   # defaults to from_web = TRUE
importCovidData(from_web = FALSE)   # returns historical subset of data

smorsink1/ncov2019 documentation built on March 27, 2020, 7:22 p.m.