This R package download statistical number of the Wuhan 2019-nCov cases to provide convenient access to epidemiological data on the coronavirus outbreak. The R package contains tools to query the database, get the data, and visualize the data in a map or in a shiny app. The database contains detailed real-time statistics from Tencent (https://news.qq.com/zt2020/page/feiyan.htm), but also it offers access to other data sources with detailed daily statistics at country, province and city level for China from: Wuhan-2019-nCoV GitHub repository (https://github.com/canghailan/Wuhan-2019-nCoV), National Health Commission of the People’s Republic of China, DXY.cn (https://ncov.dxy.cn/ncovh5/view/pneumonia). The package extracts also worlwide data, at country level data from the Wuhan-2019-nCoV GitHub repository . It collects historical province level data for South Korea, United States, Japan, Iran, Italy, Germany and United Kingdom from 今日头条 (https://i.snssdk.com/ugc/hotboard_fe/hot_list/template/hot_list/forum_tab.html; since 2020-03-15).
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| Identifier | URL:https://github.com/GuangchuangYu/nCov2019 |
| Type | repository |
| Biological Scale | population |
| Collection End Date | |
| Language | English |
| Topics | |
| Geographical Scope | Earth, People's Republic of China |
| Geographical Resolution | City, Province, Country |
| Start Date | 2019/12/01 |
| End Date | |
| Version | 0.3.8 |
| Accessible For Free | TRUE |
| License | Artistic License 2.0 |
| Rights | https://github.com/GuangchuangYu/nCov2019#readme |
| HTTP Status Code | 200 |
| HTTP Checked On | 2025/06/16 |