Forecasting Equipment and Staff Needs Using the Calculations from the WHO Essential Supplies Forecasting Tool

Translating the WHO Essential Supplies Forecasting Tool into code.

Installation

esft was written in R version 4.2.1 and is compatible with R >= 3.5.0, on Windows and iOS machines. The package depends on countrycode v.1.4.0, gh v.1.3.1, magrittr v.2.0.3, rlang v.1.0.6, data.table v.1.14.6, dplyr v.1.0.10, tidyr v.1.2.1, and tidyselect v.1.2.0.

Windows users should install Rtools in order for the package to compile.

The devtools package should also be installed by running:

install.packages("devtools")

Then install the esft package directly from GitHub by running:

devtools::install_github("mrc-ide/esft")

The package can then be loaded like so:

library(esft)

More information can be found in the vignettes.