The goal of L2TDatabaseExplorer is to provide some interactive tools for exploring our database.
Connect to the University of Minnesota VPN.
Make sure you have Git installed.
Clone the repository to your computer in RStudio. Go to File > New Project > Version Control > Git. Use https://github.com/LearningToTalk/L2TDatabaseExplorer.git as the URL.
Run the script in the file setup.R to install the needed packages.
The app looks for a file called l2t_db.cnf in this folder. If there is no such file, create one using the function L2TDatabase::make_cnf_file() and valid user credentials and the network address of the database. These can be found on the L2T wiki page about the database.
Run run.R from RStudio to launch the app in a browser.
Run update.R to pull the latest changes from GitHub. This should work if you have not edited any of the files in the repository.
If you can use the command line, and have R/git/pandoc on your system path, and have an R_LIBS_USER system environment variable--you probably do not--you can launch the app from the command line.
Connect to the University of Minnesota VPN.
Clone this repository.
git clone https://github.com/LearningToTalk/L2TDatabaseExplorer.git
cd L2TDatabaseExplorerRun setup script. This will install the packages required to use the app.
Rscript setup.RCreate the .cnf as described above.
Now, you can launch the app. It should work if you have a connection to the UMN VPN and valid credentials saved for the database.
Rscript run.R