Calculate monthly counts by disease

get_month_counts aggregates disease counts by month and year. This is a helper function used internally by report generation functions to summarize monthly disease counts.

Usage

get_month_counts(data)

Arguments

data

Dataframe. Must contain columns:

• disease: The disease name

• year: The year of the counts

• month: The month of the counts (1-12)

• counts: The number of cases

Value

A dataframe with the aggregated monthly counts

Examples

df <- data.frame(
  disease = c("Flu", "Flu", "Measles"),
  year = c(2020, 2020, 2020),
  month = c(1, 1, 2),
  counts = c(5, 3, 2)
)
get_month_counts(df)
#>   disease year month counts
#> 1     Flu 2020     1      8
#> 2 Measles 2020     2      2