epireview major release

[sangeetabhatia03]

This PR constitutes a major release of epireview bringing together the features and bug-fixes from develop into main. I have updated NEWS.md summarising the key updates.

Checklist:

• [X ] I have added new dependencies in DESCRIPTION
• [ X] I have bumped the version number in DESCRIPTION
• [ X] I have updated the NEWS.md
• [ NA] I have added unit tests using testthat
• [ NA] I have checked that the package can install locally using devtools::install_local("<path-to-epireview>")
• [ NA] I have added documentation where required
• [ NA] My documentation includes examples of how to use the function
• [ NA] If necessary, I have updated priority-pathogens

[CosmoNaught]

@sangeetabhatia03 tests passing see below however

── R CMD check results ──────────────────────────── epireview 1.2.10 ────
Duration: 42.3s

❯ checking R code for possible problems ... NOTE
  load_epidata: no visible global function definition for ‘read.csv2’
  Undefined global functions or variables:
    read.csv2
  Consider adding
    importFrom("utils", "read.csv2")
  to your NAMESPACE file.

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is there a reason why here you use read.csv2()? we consistently use read_csv() just wondering if this is by design or if I can push a fix to be consistent.

[sangeetabhatia03]

i did add import directive for read.csv.. and yes i am taking every opportunity to reduce our dependancy footprint, hoping to move away from readr, dplyr etc altogether in a few release cycles. I am happy to edit if you think this is not a good reason.