argo (version 3.0.2)

argo2_main: main function for argo2

Description

main function that reproduce the results in ARGO2 paper

Usage

argo2_main(
  gt.folder,
  ili.folder,
  population.file,
  gft.file,
  save.folder = NULL
)

Arguments

gt.folder

folder with Google Trends files, which should be thousands of csv file such as "US-MA_fever cough.csv" or "US-NY_cold or flu.csv"

ili.folder

folder with ILINet data files: "ILINet_nat.csv" and "ILINet_regional.csv"

population.file

file path to population csv file

gft.file

file path to Google Flu Trends csv file

save.folder

output folder to save graphics. If NULL then do not output graphics.

References

Shaoyang Ning, Shihao Yang, S. C. Kou. Accurate Regional Influenza Epidemics Tracking Using Internet Search Data. Scientific Reports

Examples

if (FALSE) {
download.file("https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/syang/files/gt2016-10-24.zip",
file.path(tempdir(), "gt2016-10-24.zip"))
unzip(file.path(tempdir(), "gt2016-10-24.zip"), exdir = tempdir())
gt.folder <- file.path(tempdir(), "2016-10-19")
argo2_main(
  gt.folder=gt.folder,
  ili.folder=system.file("regiondata", "ili20161121", package = "argo"),
  population.file=system.file("regiondata", "Population.csv", package = "argo"),
  gft.file=system.file("regiondata", "GFT.txt", package = "argo")
)
}