Find the best place to live in France

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Table of contents

• Overview
• System requirements
• Installation
• Usage
• Data description
• Citation
• Contributing

Overview

This repository contains the code to build and run the Shiny App Find the best place to live in France available at https://ahasverus.shinyapps.io/zeplacetobe. For a given French city, user can get information on administration, demography, geography, land cover, climate change, etc. A Leaflet map allows user to access satellite images of the city.

Currently, this app is only available for Mainland France.

The next three sections explain how to run the Shiny app locally.

System requirements

This project requires the software R. Windows users need to install the additional software RTools. This project handles spatial objects and requires some system dependencies (GDAL, PROJ and GEOS). Please visit this page to correctly install these tools.

Installation

• Fork this repository using the GitHub interface.
• Clone your fork using git clone fork-url (replace fork-url by the URL of your fork). Alternatively, open RStudio IDE and create a New Project from Version Control.
• Install required packages by running:

```r

Install the remotes package

install.packages("remotes")

Install required packages

remotes::install_deps() ```

Usage

To start and use the Shiny app, run the following command:

```r

Run the Shiny app

shiny::runApp() ```

On a web browser, go to the URL http://127.0.0.1:XXX, where XXX is the port listening the Shiny server.

Note: running the app for the first time can take several minutes as all required datasets will be downloaded.

Data description

Administrative borders

• Borders of Mainland France come from the GADM database.
• Borders of French municipalities come from OpenStreetMap database.

Base maps

• OpenStreetMap layer, released under the ODbl license.
• Esri WorldImagery layer.

Administration, demography and geography

• Data come from Wikipedia.

Elevation

• Data come from SRTM 90m Digital Elevation Model and have been downloaded with the R package geodata.

Sunshine duration

• Data come from Data Gouv France.

Earth quake risk

• Data come from Data Gouv France.

Water quality

• Data come from Les Agences de l'Eau

Services

• Data for hospitals come from the Fédération Hospitalière de France. Only the CHR (Centres Hospitaliers Régionaux), CH (Centres hospitaliers), and HL (Hôpitaux locaux) are used in the app.
• Data for school come from Data Gouv France.

Land cover

• Data come from the Corine Land cover database.

Climate data

• Climate layers for the period 1981-2010 come from the Chelsa database.
• Climate layers for the period 2041-2070 come from the Chelsa database and the Global Climate Model GFDL-ESM4 run under the SSP scenario SSP585.

Citation

Casajus N (2023) A Shiny app to find the best place to live in France. URL: https://ahasverus.shinyapps.io/zeplacetobe/.

Contributing

All types of contributions are encouraged and valued. For more information, check out our Contributor Guidelines.

Please note that the zeplacetobe project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.