Solution to everchanging Apple Mobility url

[heinonmatti]

Hi,

A friend of mine reverse engineered Apple's javascript bundle, and jameshtwose translated the code to R.

It should figure out the csv filename automatically, so you don't have to look for it every time. I'm just a noob, but maybe this could be integrated to the package so that it works seamlessly?

Function here: https://github.com/jameshtwose/Data-Science/blob/master/Backend/apple_mobility_data.R Documentation in Rd: https://github.com/jameshtwose/Data-Science/blob/master/Backend/apple_mobility_data_help.Rd Documentation in html: https://github.com/jameshtwose/Data-Science/blob/master/Backend/apple_mobility_data_help.html

[eguidotti]

Hi @heinonmatti, thanks for this nice idea! I'd like to avoid extra dependencies (httr), so I edited the function and pushed a commit here: https://github.com/covid19datahub/R/commit/3cea6796d4f7fb7a39401a21c9ea8684d8901336

You can already try it out with:

devtools::install_github("covid19datahub/R")
library(COVID19)
x <- covid19(amr = TRUE)

This should work. If things are stable in the next few days, I'll update the version on CRAN

[eguidotti]

On its way to CRAN. Thanks!