Package: episomer Title: Early Detection of Public Health Threats from Social Media Data Version: 3.0.35 Authors@R: c( person(given = "Laura", family = "Espinosa", role = c("aut", "fnd", "cre"), email = "laura.espinosa@ecdc.europa.eu", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0748-9657", "Project manager, author of the design and concept of the package, and package maintainer")), person(given = "Francisco", family = "Orchard", role = c("aut", "ctr"), email = "f.orchard@epiconcept.fr", comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0001-5793-3301", "Author of the package and original code")), person(given = "Gianfranco", family = "Spiteri", role = c("ctb", "fnd"), email = "gianfranco.spiteri@ecdc.europa.eu"), person(given = "Ariana", family = "Wijermans", role = "ctb", email = "ariana.wijermans@ecdc.europa.eu", comment = "Contributor to the design and concept of the original version of the package"), person(given = "Thomas", family = "Mollet", role = c("ctb"), email = "thomas.mollet@ecdc.europa.eu", comment = "Contributor to the design and concept of the original version of the package"), person(given = "Adrian", family = "Prodan", role = "ctb", email = "adrian.prodan@ecdc.europa.eu"), person(given = "Martin", family = "Norling", role = "ctb", email = "martin.norling@ecdc.europa.eu"), person(given = "Enrique", family = "Delgado", role = "ctb", email = "enrique.delgado@ecdc.europa.eu"), person(given = "Thomas", family = "Czernichow", role = "ctb", email = "thomas.czernichow@epiconcept.fr"), person(given = "Maria", family = "Prieto Gonzalez", role = "ctb", email = "m.gonzalez@epiconcept.fr"), person(given = "Esther", family = "Kissling", role = "ctb", email = "e.kissling@epiconcept.fr"), person(given = "Michael", family = "Höhle", role = "ctb", email = "hoehle@math.su.se"), person(given = "Yohann", family = "Mansiaux", role = "ctb", email = "y.mansiaux@epiconcept.fr") ) Description: It allows you to automatically monitor trends of social media messages by time, place and topic aiming at detecting public health threats early through the detection of signals (i.e., an unusual increase in the number of messages per time, topic and location). It was designed to focus on infectious diseases, and it can be extended to all hazards or other fields of study by modifying the topics and keywords. More information on the original package 'epitweetr' is available in the peer-review publication Espinosa et al. (2022) . License: EUPL URL: https://github.com/EU-ECDC/episomer BugReports: https://github.com/EU-ECDC/episomer/issues Encoding: UTF-8 Imports: dplyr, curl, DT, emayili, future, httr, htmltools, jsonlite, keyring, ggplot2, janitor, magrittr, parallel, plotly, processx, readxl, rlang, rmarkdown, rnaturalearthdata, openxlsx, shiny, stringr, stats, tibble, tools, utils, xtable, httr2, lubridate, sf, cli RoxygenNote: 7.3.3 Suggests: knitr, taskscheduleR, testthat (>= 3.0.0) VignetteBuilder: knitr Config/testthat/edition: 3 Config/pak/sysreqs: libabsl-dev cmake libgdal-dev gdal-bin libgeos-dev make libicu-dev libsecret-1-dev libuv1-dev libxml2-dev libssl-dev libproj-dev libsqlite3-dev libudunits2-dev zlib1g-dev Repository: https://eu-ecdc.r-universe.dev Date/Publication: 2026-05-08 07:48:27 UTC RemoteUrl: https://github.com/eu-ecdc/episomer RemoteRef: HEAD RemoteSha: 98169519c8166fc5ef8e8604090e78ab36508d9d RemoteSubdir: episomer NeedsCompilation: no Packaged: 2026-07-07 06:32:06 UTC; root Author: Laura Espinosa [aut, fnd, cre] (ORCID: , Project manager, author of the design and concept of the package, and package maintainer), Francisco Orchard [aut, ctr] (ORCID: , Author of the package and original code), Gianfranco Spiteri [ctb, fnd], Ariana Wijermans [ctb] (Contributor to the design and concept of the original version of the package), Thomas Mollet [ctb] (Contributor to the design and concept of the original version of the package), Adrian Prodan [ctb], Martin Norling [ctb], Enrique Delgado [ctb], Thomas Czernichow [ctb], Maria Prieto Gonzalez [ctb], Esther Kissling [ctb], Michael Höhle [ctb], Yohann Mansiaux [ctb] Maintainer: Laura Espinosa