README.md

In EpiReport: Epidemiological Report

'EpiReport' package

European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC)

Description

The EpiReport package allows the user to draft an epidemiological report similar to the ECDC Annual Epidemiological Reports (see https://ecdc.europa.eu/en/annual-epidemiological-reports) in Microsoft Word format for a given disease getAER().

Through standalone functions, the package is specifically designed to generate each disease-specific output presented in these reports.

The package includes:

• Table with the distribution of cases by Member State over the last five years getTableByMS()
• Seasonal plot with the distribution of cases at EU/EEA level, by month, over the past five years getSeason()
• Trend plot with the trend and number of cases at EU/EEA level, by month, over the past five years getTrend()
• Age and gender bar graph with the distribution of cases at EU/EEA level getAgeGender()

Two types of datasets can be used:

• The default dataset included in the EpiReport package which includes Salmonellosis data for 2012-2016: EpiReport::SALM2016;
• Any dataset specified as described in the package vignette.

EpiReport documentation built on July 5, 2021, 5:06 p.m.