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epiverse-trace / epiparameter

R package with library of epidemiological parameters for infectious diseases and functions and classes for working with parameters
https://epiverse-trace.github.io/epiparameter
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Add function to list diseases included in database #277

Open pratikunterwegs opened 3 months ago

pratikunterwegs commented 3 months ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Participants in the first tutorial trial on early stage tasks consistently asked which diseases were included in the {epiparameter} database. While this information is available on the website it would be good to have it easily accessible via a function as well. This would help users more easily extract distributions for their disease of interest.

Describe the solution you'd like A new function with a descriptive name that returns a data.frame with an approximation of the following: the formal disease name, the disease name listed in the database (e.g. "Ebola virus disease", "ebola"), the formal pathogen name, and the pathogen name listed in the database.

Alternatively, a section in the package vignettes with this information would achieve the same thing.

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joshwlambert commented 1 month ago

Do the changes in PR #326 and the parameter_tbl() function (see README Quick Start section), in addition to the database vignette address the issue?

If not please specify which additional functionality would be useful.