plot.caseCounts {linelistBayes}

Plot Case Counts Over Time

Description

This function plots the number of cases over time from a data frame object. If the data frame contains multiple locations, a specific location must be specified. The plot displays the total number of cases against dates and annotates one of the earliest points with the location name.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'caseCounts'
plot(x, loc = NULL, ...)

Arguments

x

A data frame containing the case counts with at least two columns: 'date' and 'cases'. The data frame may optionally include a 'location' column, which is required if multiple locations are present.

loc

An optional string specifying the location to filter the case counts by. If 'loc' is provided and 'location' column exists in 'x', the plot will only show data for the specified location. If multiple locations are present and 'loc' is not specified, the function will stop with an error.

...

Additional arguments passed to the 'plot' function.

Details

If the 'location' column is present in 'x' and contains multiple unique values, the ‘loc' parameter must be specified to indicate which location’s data to plot. The function adds a text annotation to the plot, labeling one of the earliest points with the specified location's name.

Value

a plot object for an object of class 'caseCounts'

Examples

data("sample_dates")
data("sample_location")
data("sample_cases")
case_Counts = create_caseCounts(sample_dates, sample_location, sample_cases)
plot(case_Counts)