R Observatory: Metrics for covid19us version 0.1.9

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

covid19us

0.1.9Package record

Cases of COVID-19 in the United States

0packages dependsuggested by 1

4.7Kdownloads / year

36.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Amanda DobbynCRAN page ↗

A wrapper around the 'COVID Tracking Project API' https://covidtracking.com/api/ providing data on cases of COVID-19 in the US.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("covid19us", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-covid19us

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-covid19us

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-covid19us

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.1.9

READMEYes · 210 wordsVignettesNoNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 12 (3 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%9 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 82%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

4.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,539 · ~13/day · ~392/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

38030 days

1K90 days

4.7K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on111 r2u5 autocran55 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing covid19us adds 30 packages (20 with compiled code, 22 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, openssl 1.1 MB, jsonlite 1.0 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (11)

curl dplyr glue httr (>= 1.4.1)lubridate magrittr purrr (>= 0.3.3)snakecase stringr tibble (>= 2.1.3)tidyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

covr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Suggested by 1

Suggests, most downloaded first

funtimes

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Amanda Dobbyn

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2020)

Releases (9)

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repeated policy violation
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policy violation on Internet access, both on availability and format of data
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2020-04-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
get_info_covid19us, refresh_covid19us

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-03-23
Total releases: 9 / 6 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 61 KB

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Epidemiology

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("covid19us")

Format

Dobbyn, A. (2022). covid19us: Cases of COVID-19 in the United States (Version 0.1.9) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.covid19us

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for covid19us version 0.1.9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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