Oct 2023: Additional updates against no internet access _ ver 2.1.3.3 Minor update to fix errors when URL is not accessible _ ver 2.1.3.2 May 2023: Minor updates to refs./urls in documentation _ ver 2.1.3.1 Aug 2022: Minor bug fix in growth.rate() fn _ ver 2.1.3 - adjust to consider arithmetic "corner" cases Apr 2022: Data source update _ ver 2.1.2 - updating data source for Open Data Toronto Sept/Apr 2021: Bugs fixes _ ver 2.1.1 - pandemics.data (for both historical pandemics and vaccines records): live update of COVID-19 Death.toll cases when loading the datasets - fix bug in checkGeoLoc and select.per.loc, affecting continents/countries mismatch for some locations/continents, with side-effects on dashboard and totals.plt, ... - extra protection for report.summary() fn to avoid crashes due to incomplete datasets Feb/Mar 2021: More data sources added _ ver 2.1 - Vaccination data, from OWID - Testing data, from OWID - pandemics data, from Visual Capitalist infographics - adding flags for having conditional testing (_in unit testing module_) Oct 2020: Adding more data sources _ ver 2.01 (unreleased) - New covid19.Toronto_OD.data fn, to obtain data from Open Data Toronto - New covid19.Canada.data fn, to obtain data from Health Canada Sept 2020: Several new features added _ ver 2 - 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 Aug. 2020: Several new features added _ ver 1.2 - 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 Jul 2020: Several new features and bugs fixes _ ver 1.1.1 - 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 May 2020: 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() April 2020: A couple of bugs fixed, affecting the growth.rate() and plot.SIR.model() fns; few more features added to report.summary() and totals.plt() _ ver 1.0.1 March 2020: Includes data access, basic analysis and interactive plotting functions _ ver 1.0