OLS Community Map

An interactive map of the geographical distribution of the Open Life Science (OLS) community (from OLS cohort 1 to 6), created as a project during OLS-6 by Saranjeet Kaur

Installation and deployment

Installation

• Using RStudio

  1. Install RStudio
  2. Launch RStudio
  3. Install R Shiny and some packages by running requirements.R

• Using conda

  1. Install conda
  2. Create conda environment using the environment.yml file

Deployment locally

• Using RStudio

  1. Launch RStudio
  2. Run app.R script

• Using conda

  1. Activate conda environment

     $ conda activate ols-community-map

  2. Run app.R script

     $ Rscript app.R

The interactive map will then be available on the URL given.

Deployment on shinyapps.io

1. Authorize account following instructions on shinyapps.io

2. Deploy (after launching R)

   library(rsconnect)
   rsconnect::deployApp('.')

References

• Leaflet for R
• Interactive worldmap Shiny app
• Shiny reference

Contributing

If you would like to contribute to this repo, please open an issue and reach out to discuss further.