The Moving Epidemic Method, created by T Vega and JE Lozano (2012, 2015) <doi:10.1111/j.1750-2659.2012.00422.x>, <doi:10.1111/irv.12330>, allows the weekly assessment of the epidemic and intensity status to help in routine respiratory infections surveillance in health systems. Allows the comparison of different epidemic indicators, timing and shape with past epidemics and across different regions or countries with different surveillance systems. Also, it gives a measure of the performance of the method in terms of sensitivity and specificity of the alert week. 'memapp' is a web application created in the Shiny framework for the 'mem' R package.

The word 'Meme' was originated from the book, 'The Selfish Gene', authored by Richard Dawkins (1976).
             It is a unit of culture that is passed from one generation to another and correlates to the gene, the unit of physical heredity.
             The internet memes are captioned photos that are intended to be funny, ridiculous.
             Memes behave like infectious viruses and travel from person to person quickly through social media.
             The 'meme' package allows users to make custom memes.

Generates internet memes that optionally include a superimposed inset plot and other atypical features, 
    combining the visual impact of an attention-grabbing meme with graphic results of data analysis.
    The package differs from related packages that focus on imitating and reproducing standard memes.
    Some packages do this by interfacing with online meme generators whereas others achieve this natively.
    This package takes the latter approach. It does not interface with online meme generators or require any authentication with external websites.
    It reads images directly from local files or via URL and meme generation is done by the package.
    While this is similar to the 'meme' package available on CRAN, it differs in that the focus is on 
    allowing for non-standard meme layouts and hybrids of memes mixed with graphs.
    While this package can be used to make basic memes like an online meme generator would produce, 
    it caters primarily to hybrid graph-meme plots where the meme presentation can be seen as a backdrop highlighting 
    foreground graphs of data analysis results.
    The package also provides support for an arbitrary number of meme text labels with arbitrary size, position and other attributes 
    rather than restricting to the standard top and/or bottom text placement. 
    This is useful for proper aesthetic interleaving of plots of data between meme image backgrounds and overlain text labels.
    The package offers a selection of templates for graph placement and appearance with respect to the underlying meme.
    Graph templates also permit additional template-specific customization.
    Animated gif support is provided but this is optional and functional only if the 'magick' package is installed. 
    'magick' is not required unless gif functionality is desired.