Public-Health-Scotland/care-and-wellbeing-dashboard

Care & Wellbeing Dashboard

• This is a Public Health Scotland R shiny app available to the public at https://scotland.shinyapps.io/phs-care-and-wellbeing-dashboard/

Additional files needed to run the R shiny app

• Various data files are required for this dashboard, the sources of which can be found in the metadata file. Contact phs.covid19data&analytics@phs.scot for further information.
• The following files must be obtained from colleagues:
  • shiny_app/www/google-analytics.html
  • shiny_app/AppDeployment.R

Deploying the R shiny app

1. Navigate to data_transfer/data_transfer_master.R and source. This prepares the data for use in the app.

2. The section between lines 345 and 374 of the script above transfers the prepared files to shiny_app/data.

3. Run app from shiny_app/app.R to view app locally to check content.

4. Obtain shiny_app/AppDeployment.R from colleagues. Edit the paths to point to your local shiny_app folder.

5. Source the script to deploy the app.

Developing the R shiny app

Data transfer layout

• data_transfer contains the data transfer code. This is for transferring data from mixed inputs to a format ready for use in the app.

• data_transfer_master.R is the script for doing the transfer and preparing the data folder

• data_transfer_sections contains individual scripts called from data_transfer_master.R

App code layout

• shiny_app contains all the app code

• app.R is the main app file

• setup.R contains the necessary packages and some settings. This is run once on deployment and not for every new user. It also loads all the data in shiny_app/data.

• data contains all the data needed for the shiny app. It is populated using the data_transfer_master.R script

• functions contains general functions used in several places across the app.

  • core_functions.R includes general functions

  • generic_charts.R includes general plotting functions including functions to make specific plots.

• www contains static images as well as additional css and javascript code

• modules contains sub-folders of shiny modules used by the app

• indicators contains sub-folders for each tab in the app.

  • care_and_wellbeing contains sub-folders for each indicator that can be viewed within the care and wellbeing tab.

  • All sub-folders and all folders contained in care and wellbeing contain a ui script, a server script, a functions script and an info script.