pilotingApp

UNDER DEVELOPMENT

This is a Shiny app that is intended to be used by pilots of SeaExplorer gliders. The app downloads real-time data transmitted from the glider over Iridium, processes it into a format suitable for plotting, and then displays plots of the various fields of interest.

How to use:

Standalone (i.e. local shiny server)

1. Install R and RStudio

2. Download the Shiny app code from this repository, either through direct download, using Github Desktop, or by typing:

   $ git clone https://github.com/melanybelzile/pilotingApp.git
   

   in a terminal.

   The latter is recommended, as then updating the app can be done with a simple git pull command or by pulling changes in Github Desktop.

3. Open the file app.R in Rstudio. You will need to install several packages (as listed at the top of app.R). To do this run the following in the R console (copy/paste):

   install.packages(c('shiny', 'oce', 'ocedata', 'measurements', 'leaflet', 'RCurl', 'geosphere', 'XML'))

4. After installing all the required packages, run the app by clicking "Run App" at the top of the code editor.

5. Once the app is running, select the glider and mission from the pull-down menu, and click "Download and load data" to fetch data from the glider FTP site and load it into the app. The downloaded data is stored in a local folder within the app directory.

On a shiny server

1. Set up and configure a web accesible Shiny server (see e.g. https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-up-shiny-server-on-ubuntu-16-04)

2. Copy pilotingApp code to the shiny server directory and install all required packages (see above).

3. Go to the server URL, and follow step 5 above.