RShiny_PlantPhenology

PlantPhenology is an interactive shiny app that allows any user to visualize the phenological shifts in plant species in response to climate change.

Prerequisites for opening in Rstudio

Git and Rstudio (Instructions)
Installation of the following R packages: shiny, ggplot2, magrittr, stringr, shinyWidgets, cicerone, shinyjs, shinyBS, plotly

pkgs <- c("shiny", "ggplot2", "magrittr", "stringr", "shinyWidgets", "cicerone", "shinyjs", "shinyBS", "plotly")
lapply(pkgs, FUN = function(x) {
    if (!require(x, character.only = TRUE)) {
      install.packages(x, dependencies = TRUE)
    }
  }
)

Using PlantPhenology

• 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 PlantPhenology

To contribute to PlantPhenology, 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.