canadacovidmetricsR

canadacovidmetricsR provides key metrics regarding COVID-19 situation in Canada across provinces using the OpenCovid API.

Summary

This package allows users to obtain key metrics on the COVID-19 situation in Canada at a national or provincial level for a specific time period. The package contains 4 functions, each of which returns a key metric relating to COVID-19 in Canada. The 4 metrics are: reported cases, reported deaths, reported recoveries, and reported vaccinations. The results returned relect both point-in-time as well as cumulative quantities. This package leverages OpenCovidAPI, which exposes reliable data to be consumed by users of this package.

Functions

There are 4 functions in this package:

  • get_cases Query reported cases with ability to specify location grouping and date range of returned data.

  • get_deaths Query reported deaths with ability to specify location grouping and date range of returned data.

  • get_recoveries Query reported recoveries with ability to specify location grouping and date range of returned data.

  • get_vaccinations Query reported vaccinations with ability to specify location grouping and date range of returned data.

Installation

You can install the development version from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("UBC-MDS/canadacovidmetricsR")

Usage and Example

Obtain the number of new reported cases on a particular date in British Columbia using get_cases():

  • get_cases Query reported cases with ability to specify location grouping and date range of returned data.
library(canadacovidmetricsR)
get_cases(loc = "BC", date = "2021-03-31")
#> No encoding supplied: defaulting to UTF-8.
#>   cases cumulative_cases       date province
#> 1  1013           100048 2020-03-31       BC

Obtain the number of new reported deaths on a particular date in British Columbia using get_deaths():

  • get_deaths Query reported deaths with ability to specify location grouping and date range of returned data.
get_deaths(loc = "BC", date = "2021-03-31")
#> No encoding supplied: defaulting to UTF-8.
#>   cumulative_deaths       date deaths province
#> 1              1458 2020-03-31      3       BC

Obtain the number of new reported recoveries on a particular date in British Columbia using get_recoveries():

  • get_recoveries Query reported recoveries with ability to specify location grouping and date range of returned data.
get_recoveries(loc = "BC", date = "2021-03-31")
#> No encoding supplied: defaulting to UTF-8.
#>   cumulative_recoveries date recoveries province
#> 1                  1458 2020-03-31      3       BC

Obtain the number of new reported vaccinations on a particular date in British Columbia using get_vaccinations():

  • get_veccinations Query reported vaccinations with ability to specify location grouping and date range of returned data.
get_vaccinations(loc = "BC", date = "2021-03-31")
#> No encoding supplied: defaulting to UTF-8.
#>   cumulative_cvaccine cvaccine       date province
#> 1               87351       32 2020-03-31       BC

R ecosystem

There are several packages for easy access to COVID-19 key metrics or data using different APIs, examples include

To our knowledge, there is no similar package using OpenCovid API in the R ecosystem.

Contributors

  • Adam Morphy (@adammorphy)
  • Brandon Lam (@ming0701)
  • Lakshmi Santosha Valli Akella (@valli180)
  • Luke Collins (@LukeAC)

We welcome and recognize all contributions. Please find the guide for contribution in Contributing Document.

License

canadacovidmetrics was created by the Contributors. The dependant API from the COVID-19 Canada Open Data Working Group dataset project has adopted the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, which allows freedom of two primary contributions:

Sharing — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format Adapting — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

As contributors to this community, our package has adopted the same creative commons license, in order to enable anyone to share or adapt the Canada Covid Metrics package in R or Python subject to the license.