ShinyCam Project

See the project wiki for additional information regarding project background and how to contribute. We will post a live example on a server shortly.

Goals

The goal of ShinyCam is to have a basic analytics package that enables users with camera trap data to easily see both operational and scientificly based analytics. We are using the Rshiny framework for a number of reasons because it is written in R which is beocoming more utilized in the ecological and conservation communities. We want this to be user driven and answer the problems most pressing to folks doing camera trapping. We will also use this as an exploratory tool as we build cloud-based analytics that will be available Wildlife Insights.

Scope

We are building this applicaiton to work at the level of a camera trap project. A project may be 5 cameras run over a summer for a master thesis or it could be hundreds of cameras put out in a particular season over many years in a protected area. Because Rshiny will run locally there are machine limitiations to what is possible. ShinyCam is build so that each tab and their respective sub-tabs map, graph or show data in tables in a coordinated and systematic manner. We are currently only show a few tabs but have made progress on many others. Examples include tabs that show diversity indicies, occupancy, detecting when species observations fall outside of known geographic ranges and many more. We need help bringing these and potentialy many other exciting features you are thinking about to life!!

Code

Directory Structure

Here is the structure for our repo. Note that the data folder will not exist on Github - please match this directory structure on your machine and populate data/original with the raw data:

├── ShinyCam
|   |-- Archive
|   |--rscripts
|   |  |- DataSourceTransformScripts
|   ├── ShinyApps
|   |  ├── LeafletApp
|   |   |  ├── data 
|   |   |     |- data
|   |   |     |- processed
|   |   |     |- raw_dataprep
|   |   |     |- Shapefiles
|   |   ├── server.R
|   |   └── ui.R
|   ├── scripts
|   
└──

Installation and Data File Processing: Data processing and calculation of relevant metrics is carried out using scripts found in the rscripts folder. Such calculations were previously performed using Python scripts in the pyscripts folder, but these scripts will soon be deprecated.

Application Frontend: The user interface of the app is created using R and the Shiny web framework - corresponding scripts for which are found in LeafletApp folder. See README file in LeafletApp folder for more information.

R Setup

• Make sure you have R installed.
• Clone this repo: git clone https://github.com/ConservationInternational/ShinyCam.git
• Enter and run the following in your R console to install packages neccessary to run app:

install.packages("shiny")
install.packages("raster")
install.packages("leaflet")
install.packages("RColorBrewer")
install.packages("scales")
install.packages("lattice")
install.packages("dplyr")
install.packages("gstat")
install.packages("sp")
install.packages("intervals")
install.packages("data.table")
install.packages("KernSmooth")
install.packages("rgdal")

To run this app from RStudio, open server.R or ui.R and click 'Run App'.

To run from the command line, do R -e "shiny::runApp('~/path/to/this/directory')"

### NEED TO ADD MORE INFORMATION ON THE PROCESSING STEPS NEEDED TO HAPPEN BEFORE RUNNING ShinyCam... LINK TO WIKI!

Server-side

Rshiny and ShinyCam can run on a server. If you are interested in doing this please let us know. We generally feel at this time (summer 2018) we need to build out the software some more, fix some bugs and make things more effiicent.