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.