DublinRTPI

Real-time Passenger Information for Dublin city’s public transport.

Code to retrieve real time information about Dublin Bus, Luad, and Dart services. Allows the aggregation of multiple bus stops.

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Shiny App

The code located in ShinyApp is an interactive app which will retrieve and display information about the bus and train services in Dublin.

A live version of the app should be running at https://aboland.shinyapps.io/DublinTransport/

Custom URL

A custom url can be used to pre-load the application with your choices of stops and buses. This can be bookmarked to save time.
Example: http://aboland.shinyapps.io:/DublinTransport/?stops=334,336&routes=14,140

Run Locally

The Shiny app can be run locally from within R or R Studio. The shiny library must be installed.

# install.packages("shiny")
shiny::runGitHub("aboland/DublinRTPI", subdir = "ShinyApp")

Other Dependencies

The app also relies on the following packages, dplyr, stringr, XML, and rvest.

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R Package

The code located in Rlib contains an R package named dublinRTPI. This can be installed using the devtools package.

The package contains functions to retrieve live info for Dart and Dublin Bus. A light version of the main shiny app is also included in the package.

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("aboland/DublinRTPI", subdir = "Rlib")

 # Get info about bus stop number 334
dublinRTPI::db_info(334)

 # Run shiny app
dublinRTPI::runShiny()