This function pulls Covid-19 data up to a certain date, for a specified country
(and state, if country_name = "Brazil").The output of this function is in the correct format to be used directly into the model adjustment function
pandemic_model included in this package.
string specifying the country of interest.
Check country_list() for the list of countries available in the database.
state_name
optional string specifying the state of interest - only brazilian states currently
available in the database. state_name should be either NULL or a string of length 2.
Check state_list() for the state abbreviations that will be used and the corresponding state names.
last_date
optional date, character or factor argument specifying the last date in the data.
It should be in the YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY/MM/DD format. The default is the most recent date available in the database.
Value
An object of S3 class pandemicData. It is a list with 3 items:
data:
data frame with the number of cumulative cases, new cases, cumulative deaths and new deaths associated
with Covid-19 for each date, up to the last_date in the specified region.
name:
string with the country name (and state name, if available).
population:
numeric object that contains the population size of the given region.
Details
The current version of this function uses the covid19br package
to retrieve the data. Be aware that the country names might have
been altered between different package versions. Check country_list() for the
updated list of country_name options.
References
CovidLP Team, 2020. CovidLP: Short and Long-term Prediction for COVID-19. Departamento de Estatistica. UFMG,
Brazil. URL: http://est.ufmg.br/covidlp/home/en/
# NOT RUN {load_covid("Brazil","MG")
load_covid(country_name = "India", last_date = "2020-06-15")
load_covid("United States of America")
load_covid(country_name = "italy")
# }# NOT RUN {# }