Ah, COVID19. Yet another COVID19 blog post? Kinda? Not really? This blog post covers how to: Scrape nicely formatted tables from a website with polite, rvest and the tidyverse Format dates with strptime Filter out dates using tsibble Use nicely formatted percentages in ggplot2 with scales. We’re in lockdown here in Melbourne and I find myself looking at all the case numbers every day. A number that I’ve been paying attention to helps is the positive test rate - the number of positive tests divided by the number of total …