I have decided that the world needs another Covid-19 related R package. Not sure whether you agree, but the new package facilitates the direct download of various Covid-19 related data (including data on governmental measures) directly from authoritative sources. It also provides a flexible function and accompanying shiny app to visualize the spreading of the virus. Play around with the shiny app here if you like or hang around to learn more about the package.

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This short blog post presents code to tidy the Covid-19 case data provided by the Johns Hopkins University at the country level. I wrote the code for an R Tutorial that I am currently drafting for locked down students. I thought that I share the code snippet in case somebody wants to work with country level Covid-19 data, in particular by merging it with additional sources.

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Joachim Gassen

Curious researcher, passionate teacher and coding nerd.

Professor of accounting at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

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