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()
head(covid19_df)
#> date location location_type location_code location_code_type
#> 1 2020-07-26 Afghanistan country AF iso_3166_2
#> 2 2020-05-17 Afghanistan country AF iso_3166_2
#> 3 2020-07-26 Afghanistan country AF iso_3166_2
#> 4 2020-04-28 Afghanistan country AF iso_3166_2
#> 5 2020-04-24 Afghanistan country AF iso_3166_2
#> 6 2020-04-25 Afghanistan country AF iso_3166_2
#> data_type value lat long
#> 1 recovered_new 387 33.93911 67.70995
#> 2 cases_new 262 33.93911 67.70995
#> 3 deaths_new 11 33.93911 67.70995
#> 4 cases_new 125 33.93911 67.70995
#> 5 cases_new 72 33.93911 67.70995
#> 6 cases_new 112 33.93911 67.70995