To enable an easy, extendable way to convert between other formats that hold epidemiological parameters (e.g. {epireview}), to <epidist> objects for applications.
Considerations for epidemiological parameters that use base R classes (e.g. vectors or <data.frames>) for S3 dispatch, might need to assign classes based on columns or identifiable aspects of data.
To enable an easy, extendable way to convert between other formats that hold epidemiological parameters (e.g. {epireview}), to
<epidist>
objects for applications.