Wittgenstein Centre Data Explorer

Contains all code and data used to build the shiny app for the Wittgenstein Centre Data Explorer, available at http://www.wittgensteincentre.org/dataexplorer/

An overview of the app is given at https://gjabel.wordpress.com/2015/06/15/shiny-app-for-the-wittgenstein-centre-population-projections/

Data formatting and upload based in the separate repo: https://github.com/guyabel/wcde-data

www folder contains images used on site and additional files.

server folder contains all the R code that is dependent (reactive) on the user inputs, referred to in server.R, including

• [foo].R: returns plots or data frames in a given tab.

• [foo]_choices.R: returns reactive user inputs where choices are dependent on other user inputs.

• [foo]_fn.R: R functions that do not involve any shiny specific functions.

label.R produces the set of objects in label.RData. It contains

• lists of indicator names, country names, age groups, etc., etc., used in the drop-down fields

In addition to data frames from the meta folder:

• ind: details on which indicators are available by which dimension.

• geog: details on country, areas and region names and codes.

• dimen data frame: details on the scenario, age, sex and education dimensions.

• faq: displayed in the FAQ tab.

• assump: details on projection assumptions used in each scenario-country combination.

The objects in label.RData are loaded at the top of the ui.R script.

The ui.R script refers to a number of files in the ui folder to control the layout including:

• [foo].md files are markdown text generally located at the top of the page above the tabs.

• [foo].html files are HTML code to display various images.

• [foo].R scripts are shiny ui functions to create and arrange user inputs in each part of the app.