This tutorial assumes you already imported the WHONET data with e.g. the [`readxl` package](https://readxl.tidyverse.org/). In RStudio, this can be done using the menu button 'Import Dataset' in the tab 'Environment'. Choose the option 'From Excel' and select your exported file. Make sure date fields are imported correctly.
An example syntax could look like this:
```{r, eval = FALSE}
library(readxl)
data <- read_excel(path = "path/to/your/file.xlsx")
First, load the relevant packages if you did not yet did this. I use the tidyverse for all of my analyses. All of them. If you don't know it yet, I suggest you read about it on their website: https://www.tidyverse.org/.
* Microorganisms should be transformed to our own microorganism codes (called an `mo`) using [our Catalogue of Life reference data set](https://msberends.github.io/AMR/reference/catalogue_of_life), which contains all ~70,000 microorganisms from the taxonomic kingdoms Bacteria, Fungi and Protozoa. We do the tranformation with `as.mo()`. This function also recognises almost all WHONET abbreviations of microorganisms.
* Antimicrobial results or interpretations have to be clean and valid. In other words, they should only contain values `"S"`, `"I"` or `"R"`. That is exactly where the `as.sir()` function is for.
We also created a package dedicated to data cleaning and checking, called the `cleaner` package. Its `freq()` function can be used to create frequency tables.