NCov2019: an R package for studying the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The global spreading of the COVID-19 coronavirus is still a serious public health challenge. Although there are a large number of public resources that provide statistics data, tools for retrospective historical data and convenient visualization are still valuable. To provide convenient access to data and visualization on the pandemic we developed an R package, nCov2019 (https://github.com/YuLab-SMU/nCov2019).

Methods

We collect stable and reliable data of COVID-19 cases from multiple authoritative and up-to-date sources, and aggregate the most recent and historical data for each country or even province. Medical progress information, including global vaccine development and therapeutics candidates, were also collected and can be directly accessed in our package.

SUBMITTER: Wu T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8199916 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature