RShiny_ButterflyHeatBudget

ButterflyHeatBudget is an interactive shiny app that allows any user to visualize the details of a heat budget model of montane butterflies. The butterflies' body temperatures are calculated based on a function from TrenchR.

Prerequisites for opening in Rstudio

Git and Rstudio (Instructions)
Installation of the following R packages: shiny, magrittr, ggplot2, shinydashboard, dashboardthemes, shinyWidgets, shinycssloaders, shinyjs, rnoaa, plotly, shinyBS

pkgs <- c("shiny", "magrittr", "ggplot2", "shinydashboard", "dashboardthemes", "shinyWidgets", "shinycssloaders", "shinyjs", "rnoaa", "plotly", "shinyBS")

lapply(pkgs, FUN = function(x) {
    if (!require(x, character.only = TRUE)) {
      install.packages(x, dependencies = TRUE)
    }
  }
)

Using ButterflyHeatBudget

• Opening in Rstudio:
  Click on "Code" on the top right to copy the link to this repository.
  Click File, New Project, Version Control, Git
  Paste the repository URL and click Create Project.

• Alternatively, go to this link.

We have a google doc with questions to guide through the app for further understanding of the topic.

Contributing to ButterflyHeatBudget

To contribute to ButterflyHeatBudget, follow these steps:

1. Fork this repository.
2. Create a branch: git checkout -b <branch_name>.
3. Make your changes and commit them: git commit -m '<commit_message>'
4. Push to the original branch: git push origin <project_name>/<location>
5. Create the pull request.

Alternatively see the GitHub documentation on creating a pull request.