epicontacts (version 1.1.4)

subset_clusters_by_id: Subset epicontacts by case-specified clusters

Description

This function subsets an epicontacts object by identifying clusters of cases connected to specified cases.

Usage

subset_clusters_by_id(x, id)

Value

An epicontacts object whose contact dataframe corresponds to all clusters containing specified case id.

Arguments

x

an epicontacts object

id

a character vector of case identifiers; the connected components attached to these cases will be retained in the output object.

Author

Nistara Randhawa ()

Examples

if (require(outbreaks)) {
## build data
x <- make_epicontacts(ebola_sim$linelist, ebola_sim$contacts,
                       id="case_id", to="case_id", from="infector",
                       directed=TRUE)


id <- "cac51e" ## it can be a vector of id as well


## subset based on cluster to which "cac51e" belongs
x_subset <- subset_clusters_by_id(x, id)

}