Rnaught: Estimate the Basic Reproduction Number (R0)

A collection of methods for estimating the basic reproduction number (R0) of infectious diseases. Features a web application to interface with the estimators. Uses the models from: Fisman et al. (2013) <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0083622>, Bettencourt and Ribeiro (2008) <doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0002185>, and White and Pagano (2008) <doi:10.1002/sim.3136>. Includes datasets for Canadian national and provincial COVID-19 case counts provided by Berry et al. (2021) <doi:10.1038/s41597-021-00955-2>.

Version: 0.1.0
Depends: R (≥ 2.10)
Imports: stats, utils
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, shiny, bslib, DT, plotly, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2025-09-02
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.Rnaught
Author: Naeem Model [aut, cph, cre], Sawitree Boonpatcharanon [aut, cph], Jane Heffernan [aut, cph], Hanna Jankowski [aut, cph], Tatiana Krikella [aut, cph], Kseniia Lipikhin [ctb, cph]
Maintainer: Naeem Model <me at nmode.ca>
BugReports: https://github.com/MI2YorkU/Rnaught/issues
License: AGPL (≥ 3)
URL: https://mi2yorku.github.io/Rnaught/, https://github.com/MI2YorkU/Rnaught
NeedsCompilation: no
Citation: Rnaught citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: Rnaught results

Documentation:

Reference manual: Rnaught.html , Rnaught.pdf
Vignettes: Introduction to Rnaught (source, R code)
Sequential Bayes: Utilizing the Posterior Distribution (source, R code)
White and Pagano: Utilizing the Serial Distribution (source, R code)

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Package source: Rnaught_0.1.0.tar.gz
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