rnssp

A Signature R package for the National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A collection of tools, classes and functions that supports the Community of Practice of the NSSP.

https://github.com/cdcgov/rnssp

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A Signature R package for the National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP) at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). A collection of tools, classes and functions that supports the Community of Practice of the NSSP.

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README.md

Rnssp

Rnssp Pipeline Project Status: Active - The project has reached a stable, usable
state and is being actively
developed. Lifecycle: stable DOI <!-- badges: end -->

Overview

The Rnssp R package is a catalog of data processing and analytics tools, templates, and functions commonly used across the National Syndromic Surveillance Program at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its goal is to improve code reproducibility, standardize and document reusable functions, facilitate the sharing of routine reports across the NSSP Community of Practice (CoP), and better engage the NSSP CoP.

Installation

You can install the development version of Rnssp from GitHub:

```r

Install the Rnssp package

devtools::install_github("cdcgov/Rnssp") ```

To install the package for Webassembly, run the following in your webr REPL or add it to your shinylive application:

```r

Install the Rnssp package for webr

webr::install("Rnssp", repos = c("https://cdcgov.github.io/Rnssp-wasm", "https://repo.r-wasm.org")) ```

Usage

This is a basic example which shows you how to:

  • use the Rnssp package to create a user profile
  • and use the user profile to pull data from an API (here the ESSENCE API)

``` r library(Rnssp)

Creating a user profile (token)

myProfile <- createtokenprofile()

Creating a user profile (username and password)

myProfile <- create_profile()

Inspect your myProfile confirming that username and password are completely hidden

myProfile

JSON URL from ESSENCE API

url <- "https://essence.syndromicsurveillance.org/nsspessence/api/alerts/regionSyndromeAlerts?enddate=31Jan2021&start_date=29Jan2021"

Update Start and End dates in ESSENCE API URL

url <- changedates(url, startdate = Sys.Date() - 30, end_date = Sys.Date())

Pull Time Series Data from ESSENCE

apidata <- getapidata(url) # or apidata <- myProfile$getapidata(url)

Inspect data object structure

names(api_data)

Get a glimpse of the pulled dataset

glimpse(api_data$regionSyndromeAlerts) ```

Contributing to this project

Should you want to contribute to this project, submit a push request to this Github repository and consider submitting a request to be added as a developer to gazondekon@cdc.gov.

Getting Help

If you encounter a clear bug, please consider emailing the author at gazondekon@cdc.gov and/or file an issue with a minimal reproducible example.

Citing the Rnssp package

tex @software{, author = {Azondekon, Gbedegnon Roseric and Sheppard, Michael}, doi = {10.5281/zenodo.16929440}, license = {Apache License (>= 2)}, month = aug, title = {{Rnssp: A Signature R package for the National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP)}}, url = {https://github.com/CDCgov/Rnssp}, version = {0.3.1}, year = {2025} }

Public Domain Standard Notice

This repository constitutes a work of the United States Government and is not subject to domestic copyright protection under 17 USC ? 105. This repository is in the public domain within the United States, and copyright and related rights in the work worldwide are waived through the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication. All contributions to this repository will be released under the CC0 dedication. By submitting a pull request you are agreeing to comply with this waiver of copyright interest.

License Standard Notice

The repository utilizes code licensed under the terms of the Apache Software License and therefore is licensed under ASL v2 or later.

This source code in this repository is free: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the Apache Software License version 2, or (at your option) any later version.

This source code in this repository is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the Apache Software License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the Apache Software License along with this program. If not, see http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html

The source code forked from other open source projects will inherit its license.

Privacy Standard Notice

This repository contains only non-sensitive, publicly available data and information. All material and community participation is covered by the Disclaimer and Code of Conduct. For more information about CDC's privacy policy, please visit http://www.cdc.gov/other/privacy.html.

Contributing Standard Notice

Anyone is encouraged to contribute to the repository by forking and submitting a pull request. (If you are new to GitHub, you might start with a basic tutorial.) By contributing to this project, you grant a world-wide, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license to all users under the terms of the Apache Software License v2 or later.

All comments, messages, pull requests, and other submissions received through CDC including this GitHub page may be subject to applicable federal law, including but not limited to the Federal Records Act, and may be archived. Learn more at http://www.cdc.gov/other/privacy.html.

Records Management Standard Notice

This repository is not a source of government records, but is a copy to increase collaboration and collaborative potential. All government records will be published through the CDC web site.

Owner

  • Name: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Login: CDCgov
  • Kind: organization
  • Email: data@cdc.gov
  • Location: Atlanta, GA

CDC's collaborative software projects to protect America from health, safety, and security threats, both foreign and in the U.S.

Citation (CITATION.cff)

cff-version: 1.1.0
message: "If you use this software, please cite it using these metadata."
authors:
  - family-names: Azondekon
    given-names: Gbedegnon Roseric
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9155-4153"
  - family-names: Sheppard
    given-names: Michael
    orcid: "https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3660-575X"
title: "Rnssp: A Signature R package for the National Syndromic Surveillance Program (NSSP)"
version: 0.3.1
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.16929440
date-released: 2025-08-25
license: "Apache License (>= 2)"
repository-code: "https://github.com/CDCgov/Rnssp"

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