Official release of "covid19.analytics" version 2.1

• linking to Zenodo and JOSS

covid19.analytics Version 2.1

More data sources added _ ver 2.1 (Feb/Mar 2021)
- Vaccination data, from OWID
- Testing data, from OWID
- pandemics data, from Visual Capitalist infographics
- adding flags for having conditional testing (in unit testing module)

Adding more data sources _ ver 2.01/unreleased/ (Oct 2020)
- New covid19.Toronto_OD.data fn, to obtain data from Open Data Toronto
- New covid19.Canada.data fn, to obtain data from Health Canada

covid19.analytics Version 2.0

Several new features added _ ver 2.0
- New dashboard interface, via covid19Explorer fn
- local data restructured to be stored in RDS format instead of CVS
- local fasta genomics data, only available on development version due to CRAN restrictions in packages' size

covid19.analytics Version 2.0 (Beta)

pre-release ver 2.0

covid19.analytics Version 1.2 (beta)

covid19.analytics Version 1.2 (beta)

Several new features added _ ver 1.2 (Aug 2020):
- New genomic functions supporting the retrieval of nucleotides, proteins, FASTA and phylogenetic tree from NCBI.
- Adding a new function, sweep.SIR.models for generating a series of models based on a range for the starting date t0
- Added more checks for integrity/consistency checks: critical columns, quantifiable columns, etc.
- Added a nullify.data fn, for removing inconsistent/incomplete entries in the data
- Added a new estimateRRs fn, for computing rolling estimates for fatality and recovery rates

covid19.analytics Version 1.1.1

Several new features and bugs fixes _ ver 1.1.1 (July 2020)
- added new geographical categories to select data per continents, implemented via geographicalRegions() fn
- added tests cases
- geneate.SIR.model()/plt.SIR.model(): added plotting of time derivatives and "force of infection"
- covid19.Toronto.data(): updated to handle new format of the data, 3 categories in columns
- covid19.Toronto.data(): can return original data as reported by the city in google-docs in a list format
- covid19.Toronto.data(): improved reading of Toronto data to protect possible variations in the reported data
- added new argument 'interactive.display' for functions that generate interactive figures, eg. live.map(), totals.plt(), plt.SIR.model(), itrends(); for turning on/off the display of the figure
- fixed a few bugs in itrends: failing when not arguments or only one geo.locn, were specified
- fixed data integrity functions not being exported

covid19.analytics Version 1.1

Several new features _ ver 1.1
- added integrity and consistency check fns --integrity.check/consistency.check/data.checks--
- added "geo.loc" argument for report.summary() fn
- added a couple of additional arguments to allow for customization of live.map()
- added new options and function to retrieve US specific TimeSeries datasets: "ts-confirmed-us" and "ts-deaths-us" & covid19.US.data()
- added new option and function to retrieve "Toronto" data: "ts-Toronto" & covid19.Toronto.data()
- added more protection to growth.rate() and confidence bands drawing, to avoid failing plots with missing or inconsistency data
- added trend functions: single.trend(), mtrends() and itrends()

covid19.analytics Version 1.0.1

A couple of bugs fixed, affecting the growth.rate() and plot.SIR.model() functions, the latter has been renamed to plt.SIR.model().
Further features added to the report.summary() and totals.plt() functions.

covid19.analytics Version 1.0

v1.0

daily update of covid19 data/plots/figures: covid19-SummaryReport.txt…