Get ESSENCE data

Get ESSENCE API data.

get_essence_data(
  url,
  start_date = NULL,
  end_date = NULL,
  profile = myProfile,
  ...
)

Arguments

url	a character of ESSENCE API URL.
start_date	a date object or a character string in date format (e.g. "2019-08-01")
end_date	a date object or a character string in date format (e.g. "2020-08-01")
profile	an object of class Credentials. Default is myProfile.
...	further arguments and CSV parsing parameters to be passed to read_csv when fromCSV = TRUE.

Value

a dataframe or a character string.

See also

get_api_data and get_api_tsgraph

Examples

if (FALSE) {
myProfile <- create_profile(askme("Enter your username:"), askme())

# Example 1
url <- "https://essence2.syndromicsurveillance.org/nssp_essence/api/timeSeries?
endDate=20Sep22&ccddCategory=cli%20cc%20with%20cli%20dd%20and%20coronavirus%20dd%20v2
&percentParam=ccddCategory&geographySystem=hospitaldhhsregion&datasource=va_hospdreg
&detector=probrepswitch&startDate=22Jun22&timeResolution=daily&hasBeenE=1
&medicalGroupingSystem=essencesyndromes"

url <- url %>% gsub("\n", "", .)

## Pull ESSENCE data
api_data <- get_essence_data(url)

## Inspect data
glimpse(api_data)


# Example 2
url <- "https://essence.syndromicsurveillance.org/nssp_essence/api/alerts/regionSyndromeAlerts?
end_date=31Jan2021&start_date=29Jan2021"

url <- url %>% gsub("\n", "", .)

## Pull last 30 days of ESSENCE data
api_data <- get_essence_data(url, start_date = Sys.Date() - 30, end_date = Sys.Date())

## Inspect data
glimpse(api_data)


# Example 3
url <- "https://essence2.syndromicsurveillance.org/nssp_essence/api/timeSeries/graph?
endDate=25Jun2022&geography=&percentParam=noPercent&datasource=va_hosp&startDate=25Jun2021
&medicalGroupingSystem=essencesyndromes&userId=3751&aqtTarget=TimeSeries&ccddCategory=
&geographySystem=hospitalregion&detector=probrepswitch&timeResolution=daily"

url <- url %>% gsub("\n", "", .)

## Pull Time series graph
api_tsgraph <- get_essence_data(url)

## Preview time series graph
graph <- imager::load.image(api_tsgraph)
plot(graph)
}