kayaExplorer

The kayaExplorer package is an R Shiny package to interactively explore the Kaya identity for a number of countries and regions of the world.

Installation

To install this package, you can install the latest release from CRAN:

install.packages('kayaExplorer')

To install this package you can use the devtools package in RStudio to run

library(devtools)
install_github("jonathan-g/kayaExplorer")

and then load the package with

library(kayaExplorer)

or use the pacman package to load kayaExplorer, installing it first if necessary:

library(pacman)
p_load_current_gh("jonathan-g/kayaExplorer")

Once you have loaded the package, you can launch it from RStudio with

launch_kaya_explorer()

Credits

This interactive application was inspired by Roger Pielke’s book, The Climate Fix and the app closely follows the analysis presented in chapters 3–4 of that book.

See also,

• R.A. Pielke, Jr., “The British Climate Change Act: A Critical Evaluation and Proposed Alternative Approach,” Environ. Res. Lett. 4, 024010 (2009). doi 10.1088/1748-9326/4/2/024010
• R.A. Pielke, Jr., “Mamizu Climate Policy: An Evaluation of Japanese Carbon Emissions Reduction Targets,” Environ. Res. Lett. 4, 044001 (2009). doi 10.1088/1748-9326/4/4/044001
• R.A. Pielke, Jr., “An Evaluation of the Targets and Timetables of Proposed Australian Emissions Reduction policies,” Environ. Sci. & Pol. 14, 20–27 (2011). doi 10.1016/j.envsci.2010.10.008

Code of conduct

Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.