R6 Class containing specific attributes and methods for the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control dataset

Information for downloading, cleaning and processing the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control COVID-19 data.

Source

https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/publications-data/download-todays-data-geographic-distribution-covid-19-cases-worldwide

See also

National data sources Covid19DataHub, Google, JHU, JRC, WHO

Super classes

covidregionaldata::DataClass -> covidregionaldata::CountryDataClass -> ECDC

Public fields

origin

name of origin to fetch data for

supported_levels

A list of supported levels.

supported_region_names

A list of region names in order of level.

supported_region_codes

A list of region codes in order of level.

common_data_urls

List of named links to raw data.

source_data_cols

existing columns within the raw data

source_text

Plain text description of the source of the data

source_url

Website address for explanation/introduction of the data

Methods

Public methods

• ECDC$clean_common()

• ECDC$return()

• ECDC$specific_tests()

• ECDC$clone()

Inherited methods

• covidregionaldata::DataClass$available_regions()

• covidregionaldata::DataClass$clean()

• covidregionaldata::DataClass$download()

• covidregionaldata::DataClass$download_JSON()

• covidregionaldata::DataClass$get()

• covidregionaldata::DataClass$initialize()

• covidregionaldata::DataClass$process()

• covidregionaldata::DataClass$set_region_codes()

• covidregionaldata::DataClass$summary()

• covidregionaldata::DataClass$test()

• covidregionaldata::CountryDataClass$filter()

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Method clean_common()

ECDC specific state level data cleaning

Usage

ECDC$clean_common()

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Method return()

Specific return settings for the ECDC dataset.

Usage

ECDC$return()

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Method specific_tests()

Run additional tests on ECDC class. Tests ECDC has required additional columns and that there is only one row per country. Designed to be run from test and not run directly.

Usage

ECDC$specific_tests(self_copy, ...)

Arguments

self_copy

R6class the object to test

...

Extra params passed to specific download functions

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Method clone()

The objects of this class are cloneable with this method.

Usage

ECDC$clone(deep = FALSE)

Arguments

deep

Whether to make a deep clone.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
national <- ECDC$new(verbose = TRUE, steps = TRUE, get = TRUE)
national$return()
}