cholera (version 0.8.0)

cholera-package: cholera: amend, augment and aid analysis of John Snow's cholera map

Description

Amend, augment and aid the analysis of John Snow's cholera map.

Arguments

Details

Features:

  • Fixes three apparent coding errors in Dodson and Tobler's 1992 digitization of Snow's map.

  • "Unstacks" the data in two ways to make analysis and visualization easier and more meaningful.

  • Computes and visualizes "pump neighborhoods" based on Voronoi tessellation, Euclidean distance, and walking distance.

  • Ability to overlay graphical elements and features like kernel density, Voronoi diagrams, Snow's Broad Street neighborhood, and notable landmarks (John Snow's residence, the Lion Brewery, etc.) via add*() functions.

  • Includes a variety of functions to highlight specific cases, roads, pumps and paths.

  • Appends actual street names to roads data.

  • Includes the revised pump data used in the second version of Snow's map from the Vestry report, which includes the "correct" location of the Broad Street pump.

  • Adds two different aggregate time series fatalities data sets, taken from the Vestry report.

  • Support for parallel computation on Linux, macOS and Windows.

  • PWith 'cholera' version >= 0.8.0, preliminary and provisional support for georeferenced (longitude and latitude) versions of data and functions.

To learn more, see the vignettes:

vignette("duplicate.missing.cases")

vignette("kernel.density")

vignette("parallelization")

vignette("pump.neighborhoods")

vignette("roads")

vignette("tiles.polygons")

vignette("time.series")

vignette("unstacking.bars")