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covid19nz

COVID-19 in New Zealand: The First Month or So

The covid19.nz data frame has 69 rows and 3 columns. The number of new cases is tracked daily.

data(covid19.nz)

This data frame contains the following columns:

doy: output from as.Date, is the day of year.
newcases: a numeric vector, counts, the number of new cases.
Day: a numeric vector, 0 for when the first case occurred; incrementally daily after that.

These were collected from https://www.nzherald.co.nz/ during the first month or so after the first case.

The NZ Herald states their source was Johns Hopkins University.

## Not run: plot(newcases ~ doy, covid19.nz, col = "blue", type = "h",
     las = 1, xlab = "Date")

## End(Not run)

Data Supporting the 'VGAM' Package

v1.1-5

GPL-2

Authors

Thomas Yee [aut, cre, cph], James Gray [dtc]

Initial release

2021-01-13