covid19germany

An R package to load, visualise and analyse daily updated data on the COVID-19 outbreak in Germany. This package exists to simplify data analysis and was developed in the context of the #WirvsVirus hackathon.

• Install
• Functions and data
  • RKI vaccination progress
  • RKI timeseries
  • RKI spatial
  • Population numbers
  • Hospital beds

Install

Install the development version from github with

if(!require('remotes')) install.packages('remotes')
remotes::install_github("nevrome/covid19germany")

Functions and data

RKI vaccination progress

Daily updated RKI data about COVID-19 vaccinations in germany. Provided by the Robert Koch Institut.

rki_vaccinations_timeseries <- covid19germany::get_RKI_vaccination_timeseries()

RKI timeseries

rki <- covid19germany::get_RKI_timeseries()

Daily updated RKI data about COVID-19 cases and deaths for germany (timeseries). Provided by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie as well as the Robert Koch Institut.

You can convert this RKI data to daily timeseries for federal states (Bundesland), administrative districts (Landkreis), gender (Gender) and/or age (Age).

covid19germany::group_RKI_timeseries(rki, Bundesland)
covid19germany::group_RKI_timeseries(rki, Landkreis)
covid19germany::group_RKI_timeseries(rki, Gender)
covid19germany::group_RKI_timeseries(rki, Age)

It’s possible to group by multiple of these at once, e.g.

covid19germany::group_RKI_timeseries(rki, Bundesland, Age)

RKI spatial

covid19germany::get_RKI_spatial("Bundesland")
covid19germany::get_RKI_spatial("Landkreis")

Daily updated RKI data about COVID-19 cases and deaths for germany (spatial). Provided by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie as well as the Robert Koch Institut.

Population numbers

covid19germany::ew_laender
covid19germany::ew_kreise
covid19germany::ew_alter

Population numbers for the german Länder and Kreise on 2018-12-31. Provided by the Statistisches Bundesamt. (Population data for administrative units of Berlin in dataset ew_laender is missing.)

Hospital beds

covid19germany::hospital_beds

Hospital beds and ICUs in Germany in 2017 with a last update from 2018-11-13. Provided by the Statistisches Bundesamt as well as the Robert Koch Institut.