# Early Detection of Public Health Threats from Twitter Data

## Documentation for package ‘epitweetr’ version 2.0.3

- DESCRIPTION file.
- User guides, package vignettes and other documentation.

## Help Pages

check_all | Run automatic sanity checks
create_map | Plot the map report on the epitweetr dashboard
create_topchart | Plot the top elements for a specific series on the epitweetr dashboard
create_topwords | Plot the top words report on the epitweetr dashboard
detect_loop | Runs the detect loop
download_dependencies | Updates Java dependencies
ears_t_reweighted | algorithm for outbreak detection, extends the EARS algorithm
epitweetr_app | Run the epitweetr Shiny app
fs_loop | Runs the epitweetr embedded database loop
generate_alerts | Execute the alert task
geolocate_text | geolocate text in a data frame given a text column and optionally a language column
get_aggregates | Getting already aggregated time series produced by 'detect_loop'
get_alerts | Getting signals produced by the task 'generate_alerts' of 'detect_loop'
get_tasks | Get the 'detect_loop' task status
get_todays_sample_tweets | Get a sample of latest tweet geolocations (removed)
health_check | Send email to administrator if a failure of epitweetr is detected
json2lucene | Function used for migrating tweets from to old to the new file system
register_fs_monitor | Registers the fs_monitor for the current process or exits
save_config | Save the configuration changes
search_loop | Runs the search loop
search_tweets | perform full text search on tweets collected with epitweetr
setup_config | Load epitweetr application settings
set_twitter_app_auth | Save Twitter App credentials
trend_line | Plot the trendline report of epitweetr dashboard
update_geonames | Updates the local copy of the GeoNames database
update_languages | Updates local copies of languages