get_flows: Access flow data

In reconhub/epiflows: Predicting Disease Spread from Flow Data

Access flow data

Description

This accessor extract flow data from an epiflows object. get_flows is a generic with a method defined for epiflows objects.

Usage

get_flows(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'epiflows'
get_flows(x, from = NULL, to = NULL, all = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

x	An 'epiflows' object.
...	unused
from	a character string defining which regions should be included in the flows
to	a character string defining which regions should be included in the flows
all	when 'TRUE', all the columns of the flows data frame will be returned. Defaults to 'FALSE', which returns "from", "to", and "n".

Value

A data.frame with 3 columns:

• from: origin of the flow

• to: destination of the flow

• n: magnitude of the flow—can be a number of passengers per unit of time, a rate, a probability of migration

Author(s)

Zhian N. Kamvar

See Also

get_n(); For location metadata: get_locations(); get_vars(), get_pop_size(), get_coordinates()

Examples

data("Brazil_epiflows")
head(get_flows(Brazil_epiflows))
get_flows(Brazil_epiflows, from = "Minas Gerais")
get_flows(Brazil_epiflows, to = "Minas Gerais")
get_flows(Brazil_epiflows, from = "Italy", to = "Minas Gerais")

reconhub/epiflows documentation built on Sept. 21, 2023, 1:17 p.m.