One Health VBD Hub (ohvbd)

Introduction

ohvbd is an R package for retrieving (and parsing) data from a network of disease vector data sources.

At present this package is very much in its early stages, as such the internal API may change without warning.

Databases

ohvbd allows for searching and the retrieval of data from the following data sources:

• VecTraits
• VecDyn
• AreaData

Installation

You can install the development version of ohvbd from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("fwimp/ohvbd", build_vignettes = TRUE)

Latest patch notes

ohvbd 0.5.2

• fetch_ad() now searches for a retrieves the most up-to-date GID2 files from AREAdata.
• New timeout parameter of fetch_ad() to control timeouts of AD downloads. Defaults to 4 minutes.
• assoc_ad() now correctly extracts data (this functionality regressed in 0.5.0 as a consequence of the new method dispatch approach to data retrieval)
• assoc_ad() also gives now consistent output even when a 1-dimensional output is returned from extract_ad()
• All fetch_ functions now have a default connections argument of 2, leading to faster retrieval across the board.
• check_src argument has been removed from all functions. It no longer serves much of a purpose due to the sanity checking changes implemented in 0.5.0.

See changelog for patch notes for previous versions.