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get_gdeltnews

Source: R/get_context.R
get_gdeltnews.Rd

Get last 2 weeks of GDELT COVID news. Deduplicated by DateTime, URL, and DomainCountryCode.

Usage

get_gdeltnews(period = 14, start_date = Sys.Date() - 1)

Arguments

period

(numeric) Number of days to look back from start_date

start_date

(Date) Date from which to look back

Value

Returns a data frame with n rows and 16 columns, including:

  • DateTime POSIXct

  • URL character

  • Title character

  • SharingImage character

  • LangCode character

  • DocTone double

  • DomainCountryCode character

  • Location character

  • Lat double

  • Lon double

  • iso2code character

  • Adm1Code character

  • GeoType character

  • ContextualText character

  • GeoCoord character

  • Adm2Code character

Note

Function may fail if start date is set to current date or in future. News data files aren't often avilable for the current date.

Examples

if (FALSE) {
gdeltnews_df <- get_gdeltnews()
}