R Epidemics Consortium

RECON's Updated Code of Conduct

Posted on April 8, 2021

Updating our Code of Conduct We are very happy to announce the publication of RECON’s new code of conduct. We care about our members and it is deeply important to us that they find being a part of RECON to be a positive experience. Anything short of that is unacceptable.... [Read More]

2021: A New Hope – and a fresh start

Posted on January 30, 2021

Last events of 2020 RECON General Assembly (6-Oct-2020) The last general assembly of the year took place on Zoom, most popular meeting place of 2020. After a summary of all RECON activities for 2019-2020, the new statutes were presented and voted on. These new statutes now allow anyone to apply... [Read More]

RECON COVID-19 challenge

Bringing the R community together against COVID-19

Posted on June 9, 2020

We are proud to announce that the R Consortium has awarded RECON a grant for $23,300 to develop the RECON COVID-19 challenge, a project aiming to centralise, organise and manage needs for analytics resources in R to support the response to COVID-19 worldwide. These resources will permit to expand our... [Read More]

RECON first deployee via GOARN

More than a deployment - by Aminata Ndiaye

Posted on January 8, 2020

How it all started! On September 11th, Dr Michel Yao, WHO Incident Manager of the Ebola outbreak response was invited at my home institution to give a talk on the outbreak. I attended the seminar and went on asking him several questions on the response at the end of his... [Read More]

Handling non-standard weekly data in R

An overview of 'aweek', the lightweight R package for handling weekly data

Posted on June 12, 2019

This week (2019-W24-2), the aweek package version 1.0.0 has been released on CRAN. The aweek package is a response to the lack of utilities to easily define weeks that do not start on Monday, which is necessary for outbreak response in countries whose calendars may start on Sunday or Saturday.... [Read More]