Update: 09022023
Fixed:
09022023
- fixed use function
17012023
- Import tbl object by use function
15122022
- add cutoff to display cut off point in lroc plot
14122022
- set lagvar default to -1
- conditional recode
- read xls and xlsx file

Analysis of epidemiological data using R and Epicalc

Author: Virasakdi Chongsuvivatwong, Epidemiology Unit, Prince of Songkla University, THAILAND

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WHAT HAPPENED? WHERE IS epicalc?

‘epicalc’ has disappeared from CRAN. It has been archived by R-core team based on my request. The reason is that CRAN has set up a policy not to allow any package to do anything on .GlobalEnv while epicalc does that extensively.

While not readily available on CRAN for normal Windows users, ‘epicalc’ is still installable from our website.

Windows, On R console, type:

> install.packages(c("readxl","knitr","kableExtra"))
> install.packages("epicalc", repos = "https://medipe.psu.ac.th/epicalc")

> install.packages(c("readxl","knitr","kableExtra"))
> install.packages("epicalc", repos = "https://medipe.psu.ac.th/epicalc",type="source")

Then it is ready for

> library(epicalc)

Windows binary zip file: epicalc_4.0.0.0.zip

There are many non-database functions of epicalc, such as:
- ‘codebook’, ‘des’, ‘summ’,
- ‘tab1’, ‘tabpct’, ‘dotplot’, ‘pyramid’, ‘followup.plot’, ‘aggregate.plot’,
- ‘cc’, ‘cs’, ‘mhor’
- ‘n.for.survey’, ‘n.for.2p’ ….,
- ‘tableStack’,
- ‘logistic.display’,
- alphaBest.

While ‘epicalc’ is not on CRAN, these functions are available on CRAN in the new ‘epiDisplay’ package.
On the menu bar of R console, click ‘Packages’ and choose ‘install package(s)…’. Choose the mirror site and choose ‘epiDisplay’.
After successful installation, it is ready for

> library(epiDisplay)

Under epiDisplay, the database functions are not available such as
- ‘zap’
- ‘recode’
- ‘rename’
- ‘label.var’
- ‘pack’
- ‘unclassDataframe’ ? ‘keepData’
- ‘sortBy’

For those who are familiar with epicalc, without these database functions, you need to get back to usual plain R functions. That will slow you down substantially, especially during the data cleaning and manipulation. I recommend that you should install epicalc from our website (as shown above) and don’t borther about ‘epiDisplay’ For R users who have never used epicalc and do not want to learn epicalc database functions, ‘epiDisplay’ is straightforward and should still be very useful in data exploration and result display.

CHEERS!