Fetch PANGO lineage notes — fetch_pango

Pulls the lineage notes data from the PANGO designation GitHub: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cov-lineages/pango-designation. To provide the full lineage name, the *Description* column is searched for alias information based upon the regular expression passed to the pattern parameter. If this parameter is set to NULL, the alias search will be ignored and the full_name column will be excluded.

Usage

fetch_pango_notes(
  url =
    "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cov-lineages/pango-designation/master/lineage_notes.txt",
  pattern = "^([Aa]lias of)\\s?([A-Z\\.\\d]*)[,]?\\s?.*$",
  description_col = "Description"
)

Arguments

url: Character value defining the location of the lineage notes from PANGOLIN.
pattern: Regular expression to search description column for alias details.
description_col: Name of the description column (default: 'Description').

Examples

if (FALSE) {
fetch_pango_notes()
fetch_pango_notes(pattern = NULL)
}