setup_dt function

Convert to Data Table

Convenience function that sets the number of {data.table} cores to 1 and maps input to be a {data.table}

setup_dt(data)

Arguments

• data: 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.

Returns

A data table