satscanR

This function performs space-time analysis with SaTScan.

satscanR(
  cas_file,
  geo_file,
  start_date,
  end_date,
  spatial_window,
  temporal_window,
  ssbatchfilename = "SaTScanBatch",
  path_satscan
)

Arguments

cas_file

is the case file (cas for short).

geo_file

is the geographic or coordinates file (geo for short).

start_date

is the earliest date to be included in the study period. Is calculated with min(x_cas$date).

end_date

is the latest date to be included in the study period. Is calculated with max(x_cas$date).

spatial_window

is the spatial window. The spatial resolution is in km.

temporal_window

is the temporal window. The time resolution is in days.

ssbatchfilename

is the name of the file containing the SaTScan executable.

path_satscan

is the path of directory of SatScan installation.

Value

a list with eight object (main, col, rr, gis, llr, sci, shapeclust, prm)

Details

the stascanR implements ths space-time analysis with [rsatscan](https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/rsatscan/vignettes/rsatscan.html) package. The rsatscan package only does anything useful if you have installed [SaTScan](https://www.satscan.org/)

See also

ss.options, satscan

Author

Felipe Antonio Dzul Manzanilla felipe.dzul.m@gmail.com.