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 classlocation - The name of the location as provided by John Hopkins raw datalocation_type - The type of the location field, either country or statelocation_code - The location code, using the ios_3166_2 formatlocation_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 caseslat - The latitude codelong - The longitude codelibrary(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