Blacklegged Tick Surveillance in Toronto, 2013-2019

This repo contains an R project file for the paper "Highest Concentration of Lyme Disease-Causing Bacteria Found in Blacklegged Ticks in East Toronto Parks."

It contains three folders: inputs, outputs, and scripts. Inputs:

  • Source data from the City of Toronto's Open Data Portal
  • Reference literature, including Public Health Ontario manual

Outputs:

  • The paper folder contains the R Markdown file to generate the paper, a pdf version of the paper, and a complete bibliography.
  • The data folder is populated by the R Markdown script. It includes modifications to the original dataset.

Scripts:

  • Two scripts for generating graphs, one animated and two static.

How to generate the paper

  1. Open blacklegged_tick_surveillance.Rproj in RStudio
  2. Open outputs/paper/paper.Rmd
  3. Install libraries using install.packages() if necessary
  4. Run all code chunks
  5. The paper is generated tooutputs/paper/