Remove reporting templates (#604)

* Remove reporting templates

* Add NEWS item

* Automatic readme update

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Co-authored-by: GitHub Action <action@github.com>

NEWS.md

@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 * The contribution guide has been improved to include more detail on ways to contribute new features/enhancements, report bugs, and improve or suggest vignettes. By @jamesmbaazam in #464 and reviewed by @seabbs.
 * Updated the code in `inst/CITATION` and added a GitHub Actions workflow to auto-generate `citation.cff` so that the two citation files are always in sync with `DESCRIPTION`. By @jamesmbazam in #467, with contributions from @Bisaloo, and reviewed by @seabbs and @sbfnk.
 * Updated the documentation of the `reported_cases` argument in `estimate_infections()` and `confirm` column in the `obs` argument of `estimate_truncation()` to allow `numeric` types, not just `integer`. See #594, by @jamesmbaazam, and reviewed by @sbfnk.
+* Removed the reporting templates that were previously provided. See #604 by @jamesmbaazam, and reviewed by @sbfnk.
 
 ## Package
 

README.Rmd

@@ -142,12 +142,6 @@ A simple example of using the package to estimate a national Rt for Covid-19 can
 
 </details>
 
-<details> <summary> Reporting templates </summary>
-
-Rmarkdown templates are provided in the package (`templates`) for semi-automated reporting of estimates. If using these templates to report your results please highlight our [limitations](https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16006.1) as these are key to understanding the results from `{EpiNow2}` .
-
-</details>
-
 ## Contributing
 
 We welcome all contributions. If you have identified an issue with the package,

README.md

@@ -39,9 +39,9 @@ More details
 
 `{EpiNow2}` estimates the time-varying reproduction number on cases by
 date of infection (using a similar approach to that implemented in
-[`{EpiEstim}`](https://github.com/mrc-ide/EpiEstim)). True infections
-treated as latent and unobserved, estimated, and then mapped to observed
-data (for example cases by date of report) via a series of uncertain
+[`{EpiEstim}`](https://github.com/mrc-ide/EpiEstim)). True infections,
+treated as latent and unobserved, are estimated and then mapped to
+observed data (for example cases by date of report) via one or more
 delay distributions (in the examples in the package documentation these
 are an incubation period and a reporting delay) and a reporting model
 that can include weekly periodicity.
@@ -211,18 +211,6 @@ A simple example of using the package to estimate a national Rt for
 Covid-19 can be found
 [here](https://gist.github.com/seabbs/163d0f195892cde685c70473e1f5e867).
 
-</details>
-<details>
-<summary>
-Reporting templates
-</summary>
-
-Rmarkdown templates are provided in the package (`templates`) for
-semi-automated reporting of estimates. If using these templates to
-report your results please highlight our
-[limitations](https://doi.org/10.12688/wellcomeopenres.16006.1) as these
-are key to understanding the results from `{EpiNow2}` .
-
 </details>
 
 ## Contributing