Visualizing Water-Food-Energy Nexus

An open source prototype for a visual interface to support research and Nexus engagements, designed collaborativelly as part of Creating interfaces’ WP4.

Online demos

• Food in Kindergartens, Slupsk (Poland): Dashboard
• Food waste, Wilmington (USA): Scrollytelling
• Local producers, Tulcea (Romania): Interactive map

Installation

1. Clone this repo: git clone git@github.com:IGSD-UoW/wfenexus.git
2. Install renv package if not already installed (remotes::install_github("rstudio/renv")).
3. Run renv::restore() to restore the state of your project from renv.lock file.

Notes

This repo has been configured to use some best practices for reproducible science:

1. renv to manage isolated environments with required dependencies and versions +info.
2. Repo as a Package +info

Troubleshooting

If facing issues installing packages from Windows, run this command. (more info in renv documentation, in this discussion and this question in SO)

Sys.setenv(RENV_DOWNLOAD_METHOD = "wininet")
#Sys.setenv(RENV_DOWNLOAD_METHOD = "libcurl")

Datasets

This package uses the following datasets:

• Water footprint:

  • https://foodprint.org/issues/the-water-footprint-of-food/
  • https://www.waterfootprint.org/media/downloads/Hoekstra-2008-WaterfootprintFood.pdf