README.md

In thamstra/nCOV2019: Stats of the '2019-nCov' Cases

nCov2019: An R package with real-time data, historical data and Shiny app

:house: Data Sources

Real-time data

• Tencent SARS-COV-2 website.

Historical data (three public data sources):

1. Wuhan-2019-nCoV GitHub repository.

2. This data source contains detailed city level data in China, and country level data in worldwide.

3. National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China

   • This data source contains province level data in China.

4. DXY.cn. Pneumonia. 2020.

   • We collect historical city level data in China from this source.

5. 今日头条

   • We collect historical province level data for oversea countries form this source. (Start from 2020-03-15)

   The user can obtain the historical provincial data in China, South Korea, United States, Japan, Iran, Italy, Germany and United Kingdom now.

   For example, the below will return the historical data for Italy.

   r library(nCov2019) nCov2019_set_country(country = 'Italy') x['province'] # this will return Italy data only.

For more details see our vignette, Preprint, and Shiny app.

:writing_hand: Authors

• Guangchuang YU (package creator and maintainer)
  • School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University
  • https://guangchuangyu.github.io
• Xijin Ge (Shiny app)
  • Department of Mathematics and Statistics, South Dakota State University
  • https://www.sdstate.edu/directory/xijin-ge
• Tianzhi Wu, Erqiang Hu and Patrick Tung (contributors)

If you use nCov2019, please cite the following preprint:

Tianzhi Wu, Erqiang Hu, Xijin Ge*, Guangchuang Yu*. Open-source analytics tools for studying the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak. medRxiv, 2020.02.25.20027433. doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.02.25.20027433

:arrow_double_down: Installation

Get the development version from github:

## install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("GuangchuangYu/nCov2019")

• get_nCov2019() to query online latest information
• load_nCov2019() to get historical data
• nCov2019_set_country() to set country options
• summary and [ to access data
• plot to present data on map
• dashboard() to open Shiny app dashboard

:art: Example

Run the script example.R in R using source("example.R"), will produce the following figure:

:book: Documents

• online vignette: nCov2019 for studying COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak
• An R Package to Explore the Novel Coronavirus
• 检索疫情数据的R包来了
• 各省市的疫情历史数据来了！
• 一次搞定所有的疫情地图
• nCov2019：历史数据实现自动更新
• nCov2019英文版，歪果仁也能用这次武汉疫情的数据了
• 新冠全球历史数据来了
• 当病毒R包nCov-2019遇上动图gganimate
• 爆款风玫瑰图：新冠肺炎全球疫情形势
• 螺旋的疫情图
• 欧洲很方，一不小心都要「意大利」了

:chart_with_upwards_trend: Shiny Apps that use nCov2019

• Coronavirus Tracking dashboard
• Novel Coronavirus Pneumonia (NCP-2019) Dashboard
• Coronavirus COVID-19 outbreak statistics and forecast
• 新冠状病毒统计和预测
• 新冠肺炎疫情分析平台

:sparkling_heart: Collected in resource list

• Open-Source-COVID-19
• Top 7 R resources on COVID-19 Coronavirus
• COVID-19 Coronavirus Disease resources

thamstra/nCOV2019 documentation built on April 1, 2020, 12:07 a.m.