Update PANGO Hierarchies from Github Files

Cov-lineages curates a file that contains all lineages and one that contains all aliases. Use modified code from Julie Chen to build hierarchy table.

Usage

updateHierarchies(
  aliases_url =
    "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cov-lineages/pango-designation/master/pango_designation/alias_key.json",
  lineages_url =
    "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cov-lineages/pango-designation/master/lineage_notes.txt"
)

Arguments

aliases_url

cov-lineages alias_key.json

lineages_url

cov-lineages lineages_notes.txt

Value

dataframe of parent/lineage/children in long format