Get UK daily cases

Get UK cases by country or region

get_uk_regional_cases(geography = "all countries")

Arguments

geography	Character string identifying which part of the UK to extract and at what scale Defaults to "all countries". Options are: "all countries", "all regions", "England", "Scotland", "Northern Ireland", "Wales". Note that England always returns 9 English regions, and Nothern Ireland always returns as one country

Value

A dataframe of case counts. By default returns cases in English regions, and Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland

Examples

uk_countries <- get_uk_regional_cases(geography = "all countries")
uk_regions <- get_uk_regional_cases(geography = "all regions")
england <- get_uk_regional_cases(geography = "England")
wales <- get_uk_regional_cases(geography = "Wales")
scotland <- get_uk_regional_cases(geography = "Scotland")
nireland <- get_uk_regional_cases(geography = "Northern Ireland")

if (FALSE) {
## Mapping UK countries with English regions
uk_countries <- get_uk_regional_cases(geography = "all countries") %>%
  dplyr::filter(date == max(date))
uk_map <- sf::st_read("data-raw/uk_NUTS_areas/NUTS_Level_1_January_2018_Ultra_Generalised_Clipped_Boundaries_in_the_United_Kingdom.shp") %>%
  dplyr::mutate(nuts118nm = stringr::str_remove_all(nuts118nm, "\\s\\(England\\)")) %>%
  dplyr::left_join(uk_countries, by = c("nuts118nm" = "region"))
uk_map %>%
  ggplot2::ggplot(ggplot2::aes(fill = cases)) +
  ggplot2::geom_sf()

}