# Introduction to epikit

The goal of {epikit} is to provide miscellaneous functions for applied epidemiologists. This is a product of the R4EPIs project; learn more at https://r4epi.github.io/sitrep/.

## Installation

You can install {epikit} from CRAN (see details for the latest version):

    install.packages("epikit")

Click here for alternative installation options

You can also install the in-development version from GitHub using the {remotes} package (but there’s no guarantee that it will be stable):

    # install.packages("remotes")
    remotes::install_github("R4EPI/epikit")

    library("epikit")

The {epikit} was primarily designed to house convenience functions for applied epidemiologists to use in tidying their reports. The functions in {epikit} come in a few categories:

## Age categories

A couple of functions are dedicated to constructing age categories and partitioning them into separate chunks.

- `age_categories()` takes in a vector of numbers and returns formatted age categories.
- `group_age_categories()` will take a data frame with different age categories in columns (e.g. years, months, weeks) and combine them into a single column, selecting the column with the lowest priority.

    library("knitr")
    #> Warning: Paket 'knitr' wurde unter R Version 4.4.3 erstellt
    library("magrittr")

    set.seed(1)
    x <- sample(0:100, 20, replace = TRUE)
    y <- ifelse(x < 2, sample(48, 20, replace = TRUE), NA)
    df <- data.frame(
      age_years = age_categories(x, upper = 80),
      age_months = age_categories(y, upper = 16, by = 6)
    )
    df %>%
      group_age_categories(years = age_years, months = age_months)
    #>    age_years age_months age_category
    #> 1      60-69       <NA>  60-69 years
    #> 2      30-39       <NA>  30-39 years
    #> 3        0-9        16+   16+ months
    #> 4      30-39       <NA>  30-39 years
    #> 5        80+       <NA>    80+ years
    #> 6      40-49       <NA>  40-49 years
    #> 7      10-19       <NA>  10-19 years
    #> 8        80+       <NA>    80+ years
    #> 9      50-59       <NA>  50-59 years
    #> 10     50-59       <NA>  50-59 years
    #> 11       80+       <NA>    80+ years
    #> 12       80+       <NA>    80+ years
    #> 13     20-29       <NA>  20-29 years
    #> 14     50-59       <NA>  50-59 years
    #> 15     70-79       <NA>  70-79 years
    #> 16       0-9       <NA>    0-9 years
    #> 17     70-79       <NA>  70-79 years
    #> 18     70-79       <NA>  70-79 years
    #> 19       80+       <NA>    80+ years
    #> 20     30-39       <NA>  30-39 years

## Inline functions

The inline functions make it easier to print estimates with confidence intervals in reports with the correct number of digits.

- `fmt_ci()` formats confidence intervals from three numbers. (e.g. `fmt_ci(50, 10, 80)` produces 50.00% (CI 10.00-80.00)
- `fmt_pci()` formats confidence intervals from three fractions, multiplying by 100 beforehand.

The `_df` suffixes (`fmt_ci_df()`, `fmt_pci_df()`) will print the confidence intervals for data stored in data frames. These are designed to work with the outputs of the rates functions. Such as the below dataframe output.

    # Create fake dataframe
    dat <- data.frame(
      deaths = 10,
      population = 50,
      cfr = 20,
      lower = 11.24375,
      upper = 33.03711
    )

- For example, `fmt_ci_df(dat)` will produce 20.00% (CI 11.24-33.04). All of these suffixes will have three options `e`, `l`, and `u`. These refer to `estimate`, `lower`, and `upper` column positions or names.

- `fmt_count()` will count a condition in a data frame and present the number and percent of `TRUE` values. For example, if you wanted to count the number of women patients from hospital from the below fake dataset.

    ## create fake dataset
    dat <- data.frame(
      gender = sample(c("f", "m"), 100, replace = TRUE),
      location = sample(c("hospital", "clinic", "community"), 100, replace = TRUE)
    )

You would write:`fmt_count(dat, gender == "f", location == "hospital")` and it would produce: 18 (18.0%)

## Confidence interval manipulation

The confidence interval manipulation functions take in a data frame and combine their confidence intervals into a single character string much like the inline functions do. There are two flavors:

- `merge_ci_df()` and `merge_pci_df()` will merge just the values of the confidence interval and leave the estimate alone. Note: this WILL remove the lower and upper columns.
- `unite_ci()` merges both the confidence interval and the estimate into a single character column. This generally has more options than `merge_ci()`

This is useful for reporting models:

    fit <- lm(100/mpg ~ disp + hp + wt + am, data = mtcars)
    df  <- data.frame(v = names(coef(fit)), e = coef(fit), confint(fit), row.names = NULL)
    names(df) <- c("variable", "estimate", "lower", "upper")
    print(df)
    #>      variable    estimate        lower       upper
    #> 1 (Intercept) 0.740647656 -0.774822875 2.256118188
    #> 2        disp 0.002702925 -0.002867999 0.008273849
    #> 3          hp 0.005274547 -0.001400580 0.011949674
    #> 4          wt 1.001303136  0.380088737 1.622517536
    #> 5          am 0.155814790 -0.614677730 0.926307310

    # unite CI has more options
    unite_ci(df, "slope (CI)", estimate, lower, upper, m100 = FALSE, percent = FALSE)
    #>      variable        slope (CI)
    #> 1 (Intercept) 0.74 (-0.77-2.26)
    #> 2        disp 0.00 (-0.00-0.01)
    #> 3          hp 0.01 (-0.00-0.01)
    #> 4          wt  1.00 (0.38-1.62)
    #> 5          am 0.16 (-0.61-0.93)

    # merge_ci just needs to know where the estimate is
    merge_ci_df(df, e = 2)
    #>      variable    estimate           ci
    #> 1 (Intercept) 0.740647656 (-0.77-2.26)
    #> 2        disp 0.002702925 (-0.00-0.01)
    #> 3          hp 0.005274547 (-0.00-0.01)
    #> 4          wt 1.001303136  (0.38-1.62)
    #> 5          am 0.155814790 (-0.61-0.93)

## Give me a break

If you need a quick function to determine the number of breaks you need for a grouping or color scale, you can use `find_breaks()`. This will always start from 1, so that you can include zero in your scale when you need to.

    find_breaks(100) # four breaks from 1 to 100
    #> [1]  1 26 51 76
    find_breaks(100, snap = 20) # four breaks, snap to the nearest 20
    #> [1]  1 41 81
    find_breaks(100, snap = 20, ceiling = TRUE) # include the highest number
    #> [1]   1  41  81 100

## Pull together population counts

To quickly pull together population counts for use in surveys or demographic pyramids the `gen_population()` function can help. If you only know the proportions in each group the function will convert this to counts for you - whereas if you have counts, you can type those in directly. The default proportions are based on Doctors Without Borders general emergency intervention standard values.

    # get population counts based on proportion, stratified
    gen_population(groups = c("0-4","5-14","15-29","30-44","45+"),
                   strata = c("Male", "Female"),
                   proportions = c(0.079, 0.134, 0.139, 0.082, 0.067))
    #> Warning in gen_population(groups = c("0-4", "5-14", "15-29", "30-44", "45+"), : Given proportions (or counts) is not the same as
    #> groups multiplied by strata length, they will be repeated to match
    #> # A tibble: 10 × 4
    #>    groups strata proportions     n
    #>    <fct>  <fct>        <dbl> <dbl>
    #>  1 0-4    Male         0.079    79
    #>  2 5-14   Male         0.134   134
    #>  3 15-29  Male         0.139   139
    #>  4 30-44  Male         0.082    82
    #>  5 45+    Male         0.067    67
    #>  6 0-4    Female       0.079    79
    #>  7 5-14   Female       0.134   134
    #>  8 15-29  Female       0.139   139
    #>  9 30-44  Female       0.082    82
    #> 10 45+    Female       0.067    67

Type in counts directly to get the groups in a data frame.

    # get population counts based on counts, stratified - type out counts
    # for each group and strata
    gen_population(groups = c("0-4","5-14","15-29","30-44","45+"),
                   strata = c("Male", "Female"),
                   counts = c(20, 10, 30, 40, 0, 0, 40, 30, 20, 20))
    #> # A tibble: 10 × 4
    #>    groups strata proportions     n
    #>    <fct>  <fct>        <dbl> <dbl>
    #>  1 0-4    Male        0.0952    20
    #>  2 5-14   Male        0.0476    10
    #>  3 15-29  Male        0.143     30
    #>  4 30-44  Male        0.190     40
    #>  5 45+    Male        0          0
    #>  6 0-4    Female      0          0
    #>  7 5-14   Female      0.190     40
    #>  8 15-29  Female      0.143     30
    #>  9 30-44  Female      0.0952    20
    #> 10 45+    Female      0.0952    20

## Table modification

These functions all modify the appearance of a table displayed in a report and work best with the `knitr::kable()` function.

- `rename_redundant()` renames redundant columns with a single name. (e.g. `hopitalized_percent` and `confirmed_percent` can both be renamed to `%`)
- `augment_redundant()` is similar to `rename_redundant()`, but it modifies the redundant column names (e.g. `hospitalized_n` and `confirmed_n` can become `hospitalized (n)` and `confirmed (n)`)
- `merge_ci()` combines estimate, lower bound, and upper bound columns into a single column.

    df <- data.frame(
      `a n` = 1:6,
      `a prop` = round((1:6) / 6, 2),
      `a deff` = round(pi, 2),
      `b n` = 6:1,
      `b prop` = round((6:1) / 6, 2),
      `b deff` = round(pi * 2, 2),
      check.names = FALSE
    )
    knitr::kable(df)

a n | a prop | a deff | b n | b prop | b deff
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1 | 0.17 | 3.14 | 6 | 1.00 | 6.28
2 | 0.33 | 3.14 | 5 | 0.83 | 6.28
3 | 0.50 | 3.14 | 4 | 0.67 | 6.28
4 | 0.67 | 3.14 | 3 | 0.50 | 6.28
5 | 0.83 | 3.14 | 2 | 0.33 | 6.28
6 | 1.00 | 3.14 | 1 | 0.17 | 6.28

    df %>%
      rename_redundant("%" = "prop", "Design Effect" = "deff") %>%
      augment_redundant(" (n)" = " n$") %>%
      knitr::kable()

a (n) | % | Design Effect | b (n) | % | Design Effect
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
1 | 0.17 | 3.14 | 6 | 1.00 | 6.28
2 | 0.33 | 3.14 | 5 | 0.83 | 6.28
3 | 0.50 | 3.14 | 4 | 0.67 | 6.28
4 | 0.67 | 3.14 | 3 | 0.50 | 6.28
5 | 0.83 | 3.14 | 2 | 0.33 | 6.28
6 | 1.00 | 3.14 | 1 | 0.17 | 6.28