load_forecasts_zoltar: Load all available forecasts submitted on 'forecast_dates'...

In reichlab/covidHubUtils: Utility functions for the COVID-19 forecast hub

Load all available forecasts submitted on forecast_dates from Zoltar.

Description

This function will throw a warning and return empty data.frame when no forecasts are submitted on any dates in forecast_dates for selected models, locations, types and target.

Usage

load_forecasts_zoltar(
  models = NULL,
  forecast_dates = NULL,
  locations = NULL,
  types = NULL,
  targets = NULL,
  as_of = NULL,
  hub = c("US", "ECDC"),
  verbose = TRUE
)

Arguments

models	Character vector of model abbreviations. Default all models that submitted forecasts meeting the other criteria.
forecast_dates	A 2 dimensional list of forecast dates to retrieve forecasts. This function will return the latest forecasts for each sub-list of dates. Default to NULL which would include all valid forecast dates in Zoltar.
locations	a vector of strings of fips code or CBSA codes or location names, such as "Hampshire County, MA", "Alabama", "United Kingdom". A US county location names must include state abbreviation. Default to NULL which would include all locations with available forecasts in Zoltar.
types	Character vector specifying type of forecasts to load: "quantile" and/or "point". Default to all valid forecast types in Zoltar.
targets	character vector of targets to retrieve, for example c('1 wk ahead cum death', '2 wk ahead cum death'). Default to all valid targets in Zoltar.
as_of	character for date time to load forecasts submitted as of this time. It could use the format of one of the three examples: ⁠"2021-01-01", "2020-01-01 01:01:01" and "2020-01-01 01:01:01 UTC".⁠ If you would like to set a timezone, it has to be UTC now. If not, helper function will append the default timezone to your input based on hub parameter. Default to NULL to load the latest version.
hub	character vector, where the first element indicates the hub from which to load forecasts. Possible options are "US" and "ECDC".
verbose	logical for printing messages on zoltar job status. Default to TRUE.

Value

data.frame with columns model, forecast_date, location, horizon, temporal_resolution, target_variable, target_end_date, type, quantile, value, location_name, population, geo_type, geo_value, abbreviation

reichlab/covidHubUtils documentation built on Feb. 6, 2024, 1:42 p.m.