‘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.