Provides functions to access real-time infectious disease data from the 'disease.sh API', including COVID-19 global, US states, continent, and country statistics, vaccination coverage, influenza-like illness data from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and more. Also includes curated datasets on a variety of infectious diseases such as influenza, measles, dengue, Ebola, tuberculosis, meningitis, AIDS, and others. The package supports epidemiological research and data analysis by combining API access with high-quality historical and survey datasets on infectious diseases. For more details on the 'disease.sh API', see <https://disease.sh/>.
| Version: | 0.1.0 | 
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.1.0) | 
| Imports: | utils, httr, jsonlite, lubridate, dplyr | 
| Suggests: | ggplot2, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown | 
| Published: | 2025-06-16 | 
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.infectiousR | 
| Author: | Renzo Caceres Rossi [aut, cre] | 
| Maintainer: | Renzo Caceres Rossi <arenzocaceresrossi at gmail.com> | 
| BugReports: | https://github.com/lightbluetitan/infectiousr/issues | 
| License: | GPL-3 | 
| URL: | https://github.com/lightbluetitan/infectiousr, https://lightbluetitan.github.io/infectiousr/ | 
| NeedsCompilation: | no | 
| Citation: | infectiousR citation info | 
| Materials: | README | 
| CRAN checks: | infectiousR results [issues need fixing before 2025-11-10] | 
| Reference manual: | infectiousR.html , infectiousR.pdf | 
| Vignettes: | infectiousR: Access Infectious and Epidemiological Data via disease.sh API (source, R code) | 
| Package source: | infectiousR_0.1.0.tar.gz | 
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: infectiousR_0.1.0.zip, r-release: infectiousR_0.1.0.zip, r-oldrel: infectiousR_0.1.0.zip | 
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): infectiousR_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): infectiousR_0.1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): infectiousR_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): infectiousR_0.1.0.tgz | 
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