On 07.05.2020 at 11:19 Deepayan Sarkar wrote:
On Thu, May 7, 2020 at 12:58 AM Thomas Petzoldt <t...@simecol.de> wrote:

Sorry if I'm joining a little bit late.

I've put some related links and scripts together a few weeks ago. Then I
stopped with this, because there is so much.

The data format employed by John Hopkins CSSE was sort of a big surprise
to me.

Why? I find it quite convenient to drop the first few columns and
extract the data as a matrix (using data.matrix()).

-Deepayan

Many thanks for the hint to use data.matrix

My aim was not to say that it is difficult, especially as R has all the tools for data mangling.

My surprise was that "wide tables" and non-ISO dates as column names are not the "data base way" that we in general teach to our students

With reshape2::melt or tidyr::gather resp. pivot_longer, conversion is quite easy, regardless if one wants to use tidyverse or not, see example below.

Again, thanks, Thomas


library("dplyr")
library("readr")
library("tidyr")

file <- "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19/master/csse_covid_19_data/csse_covid_19_time_series/time_series_covid19_confirmed_global.csv";

dat <- read_delim(file, delim=",")
names(dat)[1:2] <- c("Province_State", "Country_Region")
dat2 <-
  dat %>%
  ## summarize Country/Region duplicates
  group_by(Country_Region) %>% summarise_at(vars(-(1:4)), sum) %>%
  ## make it a long table
  pivot_longer(cols = -Country_Region, names_to = "time") %>%
  ## convert to ISO 8601 date
  mutate(time = as.POSIXct(time, format="%m/%e/%y"))




An opposite approach was taken in Germany, that organized it as a
big JSON trees.

Fortunately, both can be "tidied" with R, and represent good didactic
examples for our students.

Here yet another repo linking to the data:

https://github.com/tpetzoldt/covid


Thomas


On 04.05.2020 at 20:48 James Spottiswoode wrote:
Sure. COVID-19 Data Repository by the Center for Systems Science and 
Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University is available here:

https://github.com/CSSEGISandData/COVID-19

All in csv fiormat.


On May 4, 2020, at 11:31 AM, Bernard McGarvey <mcgarvey.bern...@comcast.net> 
wrote:

Just curious does anyone know of a website that has data available in a format 
that R can download and analyze?

Thanks


Bernard McGarvey


Director, Fort Myers Beach Lions Foundation, Inc.


Retired (Lilly Engineering Fellow).

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