Zhian N. Kamvar

An idea: if one of the points for this repo is a tool for teaching git, we could use the commit hash as the ID. When the user asks to...

N.B. This will not be an issue in [The Carpentries Workbench](https://carpentries.org/blog/2022/01/live-lesson-infrastructure/) as the keypoints are part of the narrative text.

At first, I thought you were suggesting to add surveillance algorithms to incidence, but now I see that you are suggesting adding *support* for the output of these algorithms to...

> I agree, but in fact this applies, in general, to any zero incidence (before the first cases, after the last one), i.e. whatever the range of the dates in...

> Note that I'm concerned that this PR and #90 both introduce new error messages that might break backward compatibility. Can you explain what you mean by breaking backward compatibility?...

@jrcpulliam, Thank you for the contribution. Sorry it's taken me a bit to get to this. I have a couple of questions/comments on this: - In #28, @finlaycampbell states that...

> I think part of the confusing stuff is we try to be clever in the output and report positive values as 'doubling times' and negative ones as 'halving times'....

I'll have a go at this for the next next version of incidence. My priority right now is to get a working version on CRAN ASAP for #95 .

> I am not too sure, but I feel that the term incidence is used in a wrong way in this package. The way I understand it, at the moment...

As a bit of bookkeeping, Bertrand Sudre [shares this concern](https://f1000research.com/articles/8-139/v1#referee-response-48153) with Jakob: > ... the current name can be misleading for a certain number of epidemiologists. The reason is that...