Patrick Barks

Hi Thibaut and Zhian, I've implemented a `.regex` keyword for `clean_variable_spelling()` in [my linelist branch](https://github.com/patrickbarks/linelist), to allow matching multiple variables as Thibaut describes. We initially went with a `regex =...

Actually, frustratingly, I haven't been able to find France regional case counts from after 2020-03-25. In that 'key figures' .csv you link to (also available from [data.gouv.fr](https://www.data.gouv.fr/en/datasets/chiffres-cles-concernant-lepidemie-de-covid19-en-france/)), confirmed cases are...

Based on [this report](https://www.santepubliquefrance.fr/maladies-et-traumatismes/maladies-et-infections-respiratoires/infection-a-coronavirus/documents/bulletin-national/covid-19-point-epidemiologique-du-9-avril-2020) from yesterday, Santé publique France no longer counts cases per se, but rather estimates them from the city laboratory tests and the hospitalization counts: > Since...

These sources have the same problems noted above. In chiffres-cles.csv, daily confirmed cases and daily deaths were only tracked at the regional level until ~2020-03-25 (except for a few regions...

It is possible to [rename a GitHub repo](https://help.github.com/en/github/administering-a-repository/renaming-a-repository) (and then update the DESCRIPTION etc. accordingly), but I think it's safer to just copy to a new repo like you suggest...

Just came across this other [covdata](https://kjhealy.github.io/covdata/) package on GitHub, which imports ECDC and US state-level data. So might want to avoid that name.