Major changes:

  • As of March 10, 2023, the source data no longer get updated, therefore:
    • The package’s datasets are up-to-date with the source and not going to get update beyond that date
    • Retiring the update_dataset function and the package data pipelines

Major changes:

  • Updating the covid19_vaccine dataset with the changes in the raw data

Minor changes:

  • Updating the data pipeline:
    • Split the CSV file by year to reduce the files size
    • Convert the cases and vaccine data pipelines to quarto docs
    • Updated the refresh_coronavirus_jhu function with the changes in the CSV files
  • Updated the branch naming
  • Updated the docker - add quarto settings
  • Update the package vignettes
  • Fixed issue with the refresh_coronavirus_jhu - misclassification of the recovery cases as death cases
  • Fixed issue with the Geospatial Visualization vignette - using s2 spherical geometry as default when coordinates are set as ellipsoidal
  • Added GIS and continent codes for the coronavirus dataset
  • Fixed issue with the branch reference on the refresh_coronavirus_jhu
  • Updated the package docker image - add new packages for supporting the new data pipeline
  • Modified the data pipeline - now running with Github Actions and Rmarkdown
  • Removed duplication from the covid19_vaccine due to continent mapping issue
  • Stopped tracking recovery cases as per this issue
  • Added the vaccine data
  • Added the world population data by country
  • Added a new vignettes - Geospatial Visualization
  • Bug fixing:
    • Error with the refresh_coronavirus_jhu function, see issue #78
    • Issue with refresh_coronavirus_jhu function, see issue #83
  • Fixed issue with the data parsing - replacing read.csv with read_csv
  • Data is up-to-date till May 26th, 2021

Data is up-to-date up to Jan 22th 2021 Fixed issue with the data format and refresh function

  • Data is up-to-date up to Jan 9th 2021
  • Added docker framework for the package dashboard
  • Updated the data refresh function and docker image
  • Fixed CRAN warnings
  • Added the refresh_coronavirus_jhu function for pulling the coronavirus dataset using the covid19R project format
  • Created docker image for development environment and cron job, more info available here
  • Updated the update_dataset function
  • Data changes:

    • coronavirus dataset - Change the structure of the US data from March 23rd 2020 and forward. The US data is now available on an agregated level. More information about the changes on the raw data available on this issue

    • Changes in the columns names and order:

      • Province.State changed to province
      • Country.Region changed to country
      • Lat changed to lat
      • Long changed to long
    • The covid_south_korea and covid_iran that were avialble on the dev version were removed from the package and moved to new package covid19wiki, for now available only on Github

  • Function:

    • update_dataset - enable to update the installed version with new data that available on the Github version
  • Data refresh - the Github version is now updated on a daily basis with a cron job

  • Data updated up to Feb 13, 2020
  • Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.