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#' Retrieve NCHS Mortality Surveillance Data
#'
#' @return data frame
#' @references <https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/04102020/nchs-data.html>
#' @export
mortality_surveillance_data <- function() {
pg <- xml2::read_html("https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/covidview/04102020/nchs-data.html")
nat_tbl <- rvest::html_nodes(pg, xpath=".//table[contains(., 'Total Deaths')]")
nat_rows <- rvest::html_nodes(nat_tbl, "tbody > tr")
lapply(nat_rows, function(.x) {
nat_tds <- rvest::html_nodes(.x, "td")
nat_tds <- gsub(",", "", rvest::html_text(nat_tds))
as_tibble(as.data.frame(
as.list(
set_names(
nat_tds, sprintf("X%02d", 1:length(nat_tds))
)
),
stringsAsFactors = FALSE
))
}) -> nat_rows
nat_tbl <- do.call(rbind.data.frame, nat_rows)
cov <- set_names(nat_tbl[, 1:5], c("year", "week", "total_deaths", "deaths", "pct_deaths"))
cov$cause <- "COVID-19"
pnu <- set_names(nat_tbl[, c(1:3, 6:7)], c("year", "week", "total_deaths", "deaths", "pct_deaths"))
pnu$cause <- "Pneumonia"
flu <- set_names(nat_tbl[, c(1:3, 8:9)], c("year", "week", "total_deaths", "deaths", "pct_deaths"))
flu$cause <- "Influenza"
nat_tbl <- rbind(cov, pnu, flu, stringsAsFactors = FALSE)
nat_tbl$region <- "National"
nat_tbl$source <- "NCHS"
nat_tbl$year <- clean_int(nat_tbl$year)
nat_tbl$week <- clean_int(nat_tbl$week)
nat_tbl$total_deaths <- clean_int(nat_tbl$total_deaths)
nat_tbl$deaths <- clean_int(nat_tbl$deaths)
nat_tbl$pct_deaths <- clean_num(nat_tbl$pct_deaths)/100
as_tibble(nat_tbl[!is.na(nat_tbl$week),])
}