Early Detection of Public Health Threats from 'Twitter' Data

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Documentation for package ‘epitweetr’ version 2.2.16

• DESCRIPTION file.
• User guides, package vignettes and other documentation.

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check_all	Run automatic sanity checks
create_map	Plot the map report on the epitweetr dashboard
create_snapshot	Snapshot of your epitweetr installation
create_topchart	Plot the top elements for a specific series on the epitweetr dashboard
create_topwords	Plot the top words report on the epitweetr dashboard
detect_loop	Runs the detect loop
download_dependencies	Updates Java dependencies
ears_t_reweighted	algorithm for outbreak detection, extends the EARS algorithm
epitweetr_app	Run the epitweetr Shiny app
fs_loop	Runs the epitweetr embedded database loop
generate_alerts	Execute the alert task
geolocate_text	geolocate text in a data frame given a text column and optionally a language column
get_aggregates	Getting already aggregated time series produced by 'detect_loop'
get_alerts	Getting signals produced by the task 'generate_alerts' of 'detect_loop'
get_tasks	Get the 'detect_loop' task status
get_todays_sample_tweets	Get a sample of latest tweet geolocations (deprecated)
health_check	Send email to administrator if a failure of epitweetr is detected
is_detect_running	Check whether the alert detection task is running
is_fs_running	Check whether the database is running
is_search_running	Check whether the tweet collection task is running
json2lucene	Function used for migrating tweets from to old to the new file system
register_detect_runner_task	Registers the alert detection task
register_fs_monitor	Registers the fs_monitor for the current process or exits
register_fs_runner_task	Registers the epitweetr database task
register_search_runner_task	Registers the tweet collection task
save_config	Save the configuration changes
search_loop	Runs the search loop
search_tweets	perform full text search on tweets collected with epitweetr
setup_config	Load epitweetr application settings
set_twitter_app_auth	Save Twitter App credentials
stop_detect_runner_task	Stops the alert detection task
stop_fs_runner_task	Stops the epitweetr database task
stop_search_runner_task	Stops the tweet collection task
trend_line	Plot the trendline report of epitweetr dashboard
update_geonames	Updates the local copy of the GeoNames database
update_languages	Updates local copies of languages