Format quantiles for the current COVID Forecast Hub

This function takes in a dataframe of quantiles and their values and the names of the columns specifying the date, location, value, quantile, and forecast date, and returns a hub formatted dataframe

Usage

format_for_hub(
  quantiles,
  date_col_name = "date",
  value_col_name = "value",
  loc_col_name = "location",
  forecast_date_col_name = "forecast_date",
  quantile_col_name = "quantile"
)

Arguments

quantiles

dataframe of quantiles containing columns with the specified names for date, value, location, forecast date, and quantile

date_col_name

string indicating the column name for date of the forecasted quantity, default is date

value_col_name

string indicating the column name for the value of the prediction at the date, default is value

loc_col_name

string indicating the column name for the state abbreviation corresponding to the forecast location, default location

forecast_date_col_name

string indicating the column name for the forecast date, default is forecast_date

quantile_col_name

string indicating the column name for the quantile value, default is quantile

Value

a dataframe in Hub formatting