The covid19 package provides data in tidy format from the Johns Hopkins COVID19 Dashboard for the Novel Coronavirus Epidemic(COVID-19). The data is pulled daily from the Johns Hopkins University Centre for Systems Science and Engineering repository

You can install the latest version of the package from Github as follows(package is updated daily):

#install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("ottoman91/covid19")

The following is a description of the variables in the covid19 dataset

The raw data was pulled and compiled by the Johns Hopkins University Center for Systems Science and Engineering (JHU CCSE) from the following :

• World Health Organization (WHO): https://www.who.int/
  
• DXY.cn. Pneumonia. 2020. http://3g.dxy.cn/newh5/view/pneumonia.
  
• BNO News: https://bnonews.com/index.php/2020/02/the-latest-coronavirus-cases/
  
• National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China (NHC): http:://www.nhc.gov.cn/xcs/yqtb/list_gzbd.shtml
• China CDC (CCDC): http:://weekly.chinacdc.cn/news/TrackingtheEpidemic.htm
  
• Hong Kong Department of Health: https://www.chp.gov.hk/en/features/102465.html
  
• Macau Government: https://www.ssm.gov.mo/portal/
  
• Taiwan CDC: https://sites.google.com/cdc.gov.tw/2019ncov/taiwan?authuser=0
  
• US CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html
  
• Government of Canada: https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/diseases/coronavirus.html
  
• Australia Government Department of Health: https://www.health.gov.au/news/coronavirus-update-at-a-glance
  
• European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC): https://www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/geographical-distribution-2019-ncov-cases
  

This is my first R package, so apologies in advance for any mistakes. The following sources were valuable while I was figuring out how to create this package.

• Rami Krispin and his coronavirus data package.

• This talk by Jim Hester on creating your own R package

• The Package Development Cheat Sheet from RStudio