Neal Haddaway

Add tab to see R code used to generate map / plots

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Will be a good pedagogical tool for researchers.

Allow upload of Excel files

3

Probably behavior: treat .xlsx files like .csv files (only reading in first sheet). Add readxl to requirements should be implement in same stage as moving CSV read from base R...

Change base read function

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The app was built using read.csv, should change to readr::read_delim

Provide option to clean an uploaded CSV file, for example, removing non-standard characters. Possible not relevant if we change from read.csv.

Add drag&drop for pop-up items

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Implement something like https://gist.github.com/saurfang/6684a66601a7e5b6467f (adding the drag_drop plug-in for selectize.js) into the app, specifically for output$atlas_link_popup

Give ability to create choropleth map using country IDs in addition to points with lat/lng

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There will have to be some kind of unique country identifier, probably ISO2 or ISO3 codes, or code to disambiguate different country names (e.g. https://rdrr.io/cran/rworldmap/man/countrySynonyms.html).

Will hopefully be fixed with different base read functions

Some work on this has been done in the issue linked below. Would like to also add: - [ ] marker type selection - [x] marker size selection - [...

Add package requirements to runGSscraper()

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Ensure dependencies are all installed from the correct source (cfhttr from GitHub) for newbies to R

Need to build in alternative methods to reduce the likelihood of IP being blocked by Google Scholar, e.g. using IP masking, a VPN, or variable pausing between attempts (or sensitive...