Covid19R Project Data Format

Source: vignettes/covid19R.Rmd

The refresh_coronavirus_jhu function enables to pull the coronavirus dataset using the Covid19R project data format standard. This data format includes the following fields:

  • date - The date of the observation, using Date class
  • location - The name of the location as provided by John Hopkins raw data
  • location_type - The type of the location field, either country or state
  • location_code - The location code, using the ios_3166_2 format
  • location_code_type - The location code type (ios_3166_2)
  • data_type - The case type, c("recovered_new", "cases_new", "deaths_new" )
  • value - The number of cases
  • lat - The latitude code
  • long - The longitude code
library(coronavirus)

covid19_df <- refresh_coronavirus_jhu()
#> Parsed with column specification:
#> cols(
#>   date = col_date(format = ""),
#>   province = col_character(),
#>   country = col_character(),
#>   lat = col_double(),
#>   long = col_double(),
#>   type = col_character(),
#>   cases = col_double()
#> )
#> Parsed with column specification:
#> cols(
#>   location = col_character(),
#>   location_code = col_character(),
#>   location_code_type = col_character()
#> )

head(covid19_df)
#>         date        location location_type location_code location_code_type  data_type value     lat      long
#> 1 2020-10-10 Alberta, Canada         state         CA-AB         iso_3166_2 deaths_new     0 53.9333 -116.5765
#> 2 2020-08-09 Alberta, Canada         state         CA-AB         iso_3166_2  cases_new     0 53.9333 -116.5765
#> 3 2020-10-21 Alberta, Canada         state         CA-AB         iso_3166_2  cases_new   406 53.9333 -116.5765
#> 4 2020-06-15 Alberta, Canada         state         CA-AB         iso_3166_2 deaths_new     1 53.9333 -116.5765
#> 5 2020-06-13 Alberta, Canada         state         CA-AB         iso_3166_2  cases_new    37 53.9333 -116.5765
#> 6 2020-06-21 Alberta, Canada         state         CA-AB         iso_3166_2  cases_new    31 53.9333 -116.5765