tidyCovidData: Tidies up scraped coronavirus data

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

Description

Pivots the data frame to make one row per location/date combo

Usage

tidyCovidData(covid_df, covid_df_name)

Arguments

covid_df	a time-series dataframe of the type scraped from JHUCSSEGISandData github repo (columns for dates, rows for locations)
covid_df_name	a character string representing the type of coronavirus data: ie either "cases", "deaths", or "recovered"

Value

Output is a dataframe with columns for province, region, lat, long, date, value, and value_type

Examples

tidyCovidData(scrapeCovidData("cases"), "cases")
tidyCovidData(scrapeCovidData("deaths"), "deaths")

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