misc

Miscellaneous functions that do not belong anywhere else

Functions

date	Convert any reasonable object -- a string, integer, or datetime object, or list/array of any of those -- to a date object (or string, pandas, or numpy date).
day	Convert a string, date/datetime object, or int to a day (int), the number of days since the start day.
daydiff	Convenience function to find the difference between two or more days.
date_range	Return a list of dates from the start date to the end date.
load_data	Load data for comparing to the model output, either from file or from a dataframe.
load	Convenience method for sc.loadobj() and equivalent to hpv.Sim.load() or hpv.Scenarios.load().
save	Convenience method for sc.saveobj() and equivalent to hpv.Sim.save() or hpv.Scenarios.save().
savefig	Wrapper for Matplotlib's pl.savefig() function which automatically stores HPVsim metadata in the figure.
git_info	Get current git information and optionally write it to disk.
check_version	Get current git information and optionally write it to disk.
check_save_version	A convenience function that bundles check_version with git_info and saves automatically to disk from the calling file.
get_version_pars	Function for loading parameters from the specified version.
get_png_metadata	Read metadata from a PNG file.
get_doubling_time	Alternate method to calculate doubling time (one is already implemented in the sim object).
compute_gof	Calculate the goodness of fit.
help	Get help on HPVsim in general, or search for a word/expression.