covid19br (version 1.0.0.1)

downloadCovid19: Function to download COVID-19 data from web repositories

Description

This function downloads the pandemic COVID-19 data at Brazil and World levels. Brazilian data is available at national, region, state, and city levels, whereas the world data are available at the country level.

Usage

downloadCovid19(level = c("brazil", "regions", "states", "cities", "world"))

Value

a tibble containing the downloaded data at the specified level.

Arguments

level

the desired level of data aggregation: "brazil" (default), "regions", "states", "cities", and "world".

Details

Data dictionary (variables commum to brazilian and world data):

• date: date of data registry

• epi_week: epidemiological week

• pop: estimated population

• accumCases: accumulative number of confirmed cases

• newCases: daily count of new confirmed cases

• accumDeaths: accumulative number of deaths

• newDeaths: daily count of new deaths

• newRecovered: daily count of new recovered patients

Data dictionary (variables in the brazilian data):

• region: regions' names

• state: states' names.

• city: cities' names.

• state_code: numerical code attributed to states

• city_code: numerical code attributed to cities

• healthRegion_code: health region code

• healthRegion: heald region name

• newFollowup: daily count of new patients under follow up

• metro_area: indicator variable for city localized in a metropolitan area

• capital: indicator variable for capital of brazilian states

Data dictionary (variables in the world data):

• country: countries' names

• accumRecovered: accumulative number of recovered patients

Examples

# \donttest{
library(covid19br)

# Downloading Brazilian COVID-19 data:
brazil <- downloadCovid19(level = "brazil")
regions <- downloadCovid19(level = "regions")
states <- downloadCovid19(level = "states")
cities <- downloadCovid19(level = "cities")

# Downloading world COVID-19 data:
world <- downloadCovid19(level = "world")
# }