cleanAtlasExport {EpiSignalDetection}

Clean the Atlas export dataframe

Description

Clean the Atlas data export dataframe before signal detection analysis
(see importAtlasExport and online ECDC Atlas: http://atlas.ecdc.europa.eu/public/index.aspx)

Usage

cleanAtlasExport(x)

Arguments

x

dataframe, usually the ouput of the import function importAtlasExport(x)

Details

The function will:

• Filter only on case based indicators i.e. 'Reported Cases"

• Create four additional time variables to ease the analysis:
  TimeUnit ('Year', 'Month', 'Week'),
  TimeYear (xxxx),
  TimeMonth (xx)
  TimeWeek(xx)

• Keep only variables of interest i.e. "HealthTopic", "Population", "Time", "RegionName", "NumValue"

Value

dataframe

See Also

importAtlasExport filterAtlasExport

Examples

## Not run: 
dataset <- cleanAtlasExport( importAtlasExport(x = 'ECDC_surveillance_data_Anthrax.csv') )

## End(Not run)