drawIncidence: Plotting incidence curves of an epidemic

In RcmdrPlugin.RiskDemo: R Commander Plug-in for Risk Demonstration

Plotting incidence curves of an epidemic

Description

This function plots incidence curves of an epidemic for selected countries. The incidences are new cases per 100 000 inhabitants within one or two weeks.

Usage

drawIncidence(data, countries, start = "2020-06-01", end = "last", weeks = 2, 
    log = TRUE)

Arguments

data	data frame including columns location (character string indicating the country), date (character string) and new_cases_per_million (numeric)
countries	vector of characters srings indicating the countries for which the curves are plotted
start	beginning date of the time window for which the curve is plotted
end	ending date of the time window for which the curve is plotted
weeks	Integer telling how many weeks' observations are used to calculate the incidence. Usually 1 or 2.
log	logical indicating if a log scale is used in the plot

Value

No value

Author(s)

Arto Luoma <[e-mail]>

See Also

drawIncidenceFin, dataCovid

Examples

data(dataCovid)
Europe <- c("Germany","France","United Kingdom","Italy","Spain","Poland","Romania",
    "Netherlands","Belgium","Greece")
drawIncidence(dataCovid,countries=Europe)

RcmdrPlugin.RiskDemo documentation built on Nov. 13, 2023, 5:07 p.m.