Implements multiple existing open-source algorithms for coding cause of death from verbal autopsies. The methods implemented include 'InterVA4' by Byass et al (2012) <doi:10.3402/gha.v5i0.19281>, 'InterVA5' by Byass at al (2019) <doi:10.1186/s12916-019-1333-6>, 'InSilicoVA' by McCormick et al (2016) <doi:10.1080/01621459.2016.1152191>, 'NBC' by Miasnikof et al (2015) <doi:10.1186/s12916-015-0521-2>, and a replication of 'Tariff' method by James et al (2011) <doi:10.1186/1478-7954-9-31> and Serina, et al. (2015) <doi:10.1186/s12916-015-0527-9>. It also provides tools for data manipulation tasks commonly used in Verbal Autopsy analysis and implements easy graphical visualization of individual and population level statistics. The 'NBC' method is implemented by the 'nbc4va' package that can be installed from <https://github.com/rrwen/nbc4va>. Note that this package was not developed by authors affiliated with the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation and thus unintentional discrepancies may exist in the implementation of the 'Tariff' method.

This contains functions and data used by the Open Visualization Academy classes on data processing and visualization. The tutorial included with this package requires the 'gradethis' package which can be installed using "remotes::install_github('rstudio/gradethis')".

Simplifies the creation of Excel .xlsx files by providing a
    high level interface to writing, styling and editing worksheets.
    Through the use of 'Rcpp', read/write times are comparable to the
    'xlsx' and 'XLConnect' packages with the added benefit of removing the
    dependency on Java.

Simplifies the creation of 'xlsx' files by
    providing a high level interface to writing, styling and editing
    worksheets.

A set of binary operators for common tasks such as regex
        manipulation.

Provides a collection of utilities that allow programming with 
    R's operators. Routines allow classifying operators, 
    translating to and from an operator and its underlying function, and inverting 
    some operators (e.g. comparison operators), etc. All methods can be extended
    to custom infix operators.