NHP Elicitation Tool

Shiny app for the NHP National Elicitation Project.

Deployment

The script deploy.R can be used to redeploy to the production and development environments.

The app is controlled by some environment variables that need to be set:

• PHASE_1_END should be the time and date when the first phase should end (in the form YYYY-mm-dd HH:MM:SS for the timezone Europe/London)
• PHASE_2_END should be as PHASE_1_END, but the time and date for when the second phase should end
• PHASE_2_LIVE should be set to a non-empty string to enable the second phase of the app: this allows the app to enter a “disabled” state at the end of phase 1
• NHP_SALT is a value that is used when encrypting the emails of users
• save_path should point to the location where to save the database to. If not set, then it defaults to the current working directory

Development usage

The data required to run the app can be rebuilt using targets::tar_make(). There are a few things that need to be set up in order to get this to work.

1. you will need to create a .Renviron file, with the following items:

• DB_SERVER=…
• DB_DATABASE=…
• NHP_SALT=…

2. you will need to be connected to the MLCSU VPN and have access to the database.

3. you will need a copy of the file recruitment.xlsx, stored in the root of the project folder.