Upcoming changes in the coronavirus package (CRAN v0.2.0)

[RamiKrispin]

As the many changes occurred since the release of v0.1.0 significant changes in the data structure expected in v0.2.0 (expected to release to CRAN by May 15. Changes are available on the dev-v020 branch

Those changes impact the covid19 Italy dashboard. Please see the following commit with the changes needed to keep the dashboard working.

coronavirus 0.2.0

• Data changes:
  • coronavirus dataset - Change the structure of the US data from March 23rd, 2020 and forward. The US data is now available on an aggregated level. More information about the changes in the raw data available on this issue
  • Changes in the columns names and order:
    • Province.State changed to province
    • Country.Region changed to country
    • Lat changed to lat
    • Long changed to long
  • The covid_south_korea and covid_iran that were avialble on the dev version were removed from the package and moved to new package covid19wiki, for now available only on Github