Create pangoro object — pangoro • pangoRo

Create S3 class object that will contain the necessary PANGO alias details for working with other functions (expanding and collapsing names). Will cache the PANGO lineage table for the current R session.

Usage

pangoro(
  path =
    "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cov-lineages/pango-designation/master/pango_designation/alias_key.json",
  refresh = FALSE,
  offline = FALSE,
  rm_spec_char = TRUE
)

Arguments

path: Path to PANGO lineage JSON file.
refresh: Boolean value to force cache to refresh (default: FALSE)
offline: Boolean value, if TRUE use a saved version of alias table within package.
rm_spec_char: Boolean (default: TRUE)

Examples

if (FALSE) {
my_pangoro <- pangoro() # First time will fetch from web
my_pangoro <- pangoro() # Second time will fetch from cache
my_pangoro <- pangoro(refresh = TRUE) # Force cache to refresh
}