Introduction

argus is an R Shiny App to interactively visualize data across scenarios, parameters, and regions. It can accomodate data inputs of the user's choice, including the options to read a URL, upload a .csv file, or use GCAM data. Features of the application include selecting which scenarios will run, choosing the relevant parameters for individual cases, and selecting the geographic regions of interest. The designated parameters can be viewed as line graphs plotted over time, weighted bar graphs showing makeup breakdown within each bar, maps showing values by country, or as output tables. All results can be downloaded onto a local machine, or the user can obtain a bookmark to save their work.

For more detailed information on using argus, click the green User Guide button below. To launch argus in your browser, click the blue Launch App button.

Citation

Khan, Z., Tang, S., Warmka, A., Zhao, M., Wild, T., Vernon, C., 2021. Argus - An interactive platform to effectively communicate and share spatio-temporal scientific data. (In progress) Journal of Open Source Software, DOI: XXXX

Argus Offline

If users want to use argus locally on their machines they can install the software as follows:

Download and install:
- R (https://www.r-project.org/)
- R studio (https://www.rstudio.com/)
Open R studio:

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("JGCRI/rgcam")
devtools::install_github("JGCRI/rmap")
devtools::install_github("JGCRI/jgcricolors")
devtools::install_github("JGCRI/gcamextractor")
devtools::install_github("JGCRI/argus")
library(argus)
argus::run()

Additional steps for UBUNTU from a terminal

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntugis/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libudunits2-dev libgdal-dev libgeos-dev libproj-dev libmagick++-dev

Additional steps for MACOSX from a terminal

brew install pkg-config
brew install gdal
brew install imagemagick@6