Fixed UK data download

[seabbs]

• Upstream whitespace has started to creep into the data source meaning that cases was detected as a character string.
  • Stripped out whitespace using stringr
  • Converted to numeric
  • Dropped missing numeric entries
• Also seeing missing dates and I am dropping. I may have missed a change in format here so could be dropping data accidentally.

Checking unique dates (below) this looks like a real NA so safe to remove.

 unique(cases$Date)
 [1] "07/03/2020" "08/03/2020" "09/03/2020" "10/03/2020" "11/03/2020" "12/03/2020" "13/03/2020" "14/03/2020"
 [9] "15/03/2020" "16/03/2020" "17/03/2020" "18/03/2020" "19/03/2020" "20/03/2020" "21/03/2020" "22/03/2020"
[17] "23/03/2020" "24/03/2020" "25/03/2020" "26/03/2020" "27/03/2020" "28/03/2020" "29/03/2020" "30/03/2020"
[25] "31/03/2020" "01/04/2020" "02/04/2020" NA   

This is needed for gov forecasts tonight so could someone check asap and carefully :) as I may have goofed.

[hamishgibbs]

Checking it out now

[hamishgibbs]

I have looked at the parsed dates and the data from the source and it looks legit to drop missing date and case values to me. Want another pair of eyes on it before merging?

[seabbs]

Thanks for reviewing!