Get TB Data in R

Quickly and easily import analysis ready TB burden data, from the World Health Orgnaisation (WHO), into R. The aim of the package is to speed up access to high quality TB burden data, using a simple R interface. Generic plotting functions are provided to allow for rapid graphical exploration of the WHO TB data. A shiny dashboard is built in to showcase package functionality. See here for the WHO data permissions. For help getting started see the Getting Started vignette and for a case study using the package see the Exploring Global Trends in Tuberculosis Incidence Rates vignette. See here for the development documentation.

Installation

Install the CRAN version:

install.packages("getTBinR")

Alternatively install the development version from GitHub:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("seabbs/getTBinR")

Quick start

Lets get started quickly by mapping and then plotting TB incidence rates in the United Kingdom. First map the most recently available global TB incidence rates (this will also download and save both the TB burden data and its data dictionary, if they are not found locally, to R’s temporary directory),

getTBinR::map_tb_burden(metric = "e_inc_100k")
#> Downloading data from: https://extranet.who.int/tme/generateCSV.asp?ds=estimates
#> Saving data to: /tmp/RtmpsolfYH/TB_burden.rds
#> Downloading data from: https://extranet.who.int/tme/generateCSV.asp?ds=mdr_rr_estimates
#> Saving data to: /tmp/RtmpsolfYH/MDR_TB.rds
#> Joining TB burden data and MDR TB data.
#> Joining, by = c("country", "iso2", "iso3", "iso_numeric", "year")
#> Downloading data from: https://extranet.who.int/tme/generateCSV.asp?ds=dictionary
#> Saving data to: /tmp/RtmpsolfYH/TB_data_dict.rds
#> 1 results found for your variable search for e_inc_100k

Then compare TB incidence rates in the UK to TB incidence rates in other countries in the region,

getTBinR::plot_tb_burden_overview(metric = "e_inc_100k",
                                  countries = "United Kingdom",
                                  compare_to_region = TRUE,
                                  interactive = FALSE)
#> Loading data from: /tmp/RtmpsolfYH/TB_burden.rds
#> Loading data from: /tmp/RtmpsolfYH/MDR_TB.rds
#> Joining TB burden data and MDR TB data.
#> Joining, by = c("country", "iso2", "iso3", "iso_numeric", "year")
#> Loading data from: /tmp/RtmpsolfYH/TB_data_dict.rds
#> 1 results found for your variable search for e_inc_100k

In order to compare the changes in incidence rates over time, in the region, plot the annual percentage change (note that this functionality is currently only available in the development version of the package),

getTBinR::plot_tb_burden_overview(metric = "e_inc_100k",
                                  countries = "United Kingdom",
                                  compare_to_region = TRUE,
                                  annual_change = TRUE,
                                  interactive = FALSE)
#> Loading data from: /tmp/RtmpsolfYH/TB_burden.rds
#> Loading data from: /tmp/RtmpsolfYH/MDR_TB.rds
#> Joining TB burden data and MDR TB data.
#> Joining, by = c("country", "iso2", "iso3", "iso_numeric", "year")
#> Loading data from: /tmp/RtmpsolfYH/TB_data_dict.rds
#> 1 results found for your variable search for e_inc_100k
#> Warning: Removed 18 rows containing missing values (geom_point).

Finally plot TB incidence rates over time in the United Kingdom.

getTBinR::plot_tb_burden(metric = "e_inc_100k",
                         countries = "United Kingdom",
                         facet = "country",
                         interactive = FALSE)
#> Loading data from: /tmp/RtmpsolfYH/TB_burden.rds
#> Loading data from: /tmp/RtmpsolfYH/MDR_TB.rds
#> Joining TB burden data and MDR TB data.
#> Joining, by = c("country", "iso2", "iso3", "iso_numeric", "year")
#> Loading data from: /tmp/RtmpsolfYH/TB_data_dict.rds
#> 1 results found for your variable search for e_inc_100k

See Functions for more details of the functions used (note the fuzzy country matching, map_tb_burden, plot_tb_burden_overview and plot_tb_burden will try to exactly match your country request and if that fails will search for partial matches) and for more package functionality. We could make these plots interactive by specifying interactive = TRUE

Shiny Dashboard

To explore the package functionality in an interactive session, or to investigate TB without having to code extensively in R, a shiny dashboard has been built into the package. This can either be used locally using,

getTBinR::run_tb_dashboard()

Or accessed online. Any metric in the WHO data can be explored, with country selection using the built in map, and animation possible by year.

Additional Functionality

File an issue here if there is a feature, or a dataset, that you think is missing from the package, or better yet submit a pull request!

Docker

This package has been developed in docker based on the rocker/tidyverse image, to access the development environment enter the following at the command line (with an active docker daemon running),

docker pull seabbs/gettbinr
docker run -d -p 8787:8787 -e USER=getTBinR -e PASSWORD=getTBinR --name getTBinR seabbs/gettbinr

The rstudio client can be accessed on port 8787 at localhost (or your machines ip). The default username is getTBinR and the default password is getTBinR.