Makes sure that a forecast is returned for the user specified time period
beyond the target date.
update_horizon(horizon, target_date, data)Numeric forecast horizon adjusted for the users intention
Numeric, defaults to 7. Number of days into the future to forecast.
Date, defaults to maximum found in the data if not specified.
A <data.frame> of disease reports (confirm) by date (date).
confirm must be numeric and date must be in date format. Optionally
this can also have a logical accumulate column which indicates whether
data should be added to the next data point. This is useful when modelling
e.g. weekly incidence data. See also the fill_missing() function which
helps add the accumulate column with the desired properties when dealing
with non-daily data. If any accumulation is done this happens after
truncation as specified by the truncation argument.