Magnetic-A2.0

How to run locally

The documents and data within this git-hub folder form the basis for the Magnetic-A application available online at https://edoardodallanave.shinyapps.io/MagneticA/. The code for the application can be found in the documents “server.R” and “ui.R”.

If you use this code for publication purposes, please cite (for now):

Dallanave, E. (2026). Magnetic-A: The New R‐Based Toolbox for Analysis of Paleomagnetic Data. Earth and Space Science, 13(e2025EA004863). https://doi.org/10.1029/2025EA004863

A dedicated publication is under review!

If you will be processing a large amount of data using Magnetic-A - it is adventageous to run the program locally. To run Magnetic-A locally on your own computer follow the steps below.

1.DOWNLOAD R AND R-STUDIO. Instructions for downloads can be found at:

• R = https://www.r-project.org/
• R studio = https://www.rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/
• Open R-Studio
• NOTE: R-Studio facilitate the interaction with R, but the same commands described in point 2 and 3 can be typed in the R Console.

2.INSTALLING THE REQUIRED PACKAGES (SKIP to step 3 IF THE PACKAGES ARE ALREADY INSTALLED IN YOUR DEVICE):

all package used by Magnetic-A are stored in CRAN (Except PmagDiR) and can be downloaded by typing in the console:

• install.packages("plyr")
• install.packages("dplyr")
• install.packages("shiny")
• install.packages("shinyWidgets")
• install.packages("DT")
• install.packages("shinyhelper")
• install.packages("shinyjqui")
• install.packages("glue")
• install.packages("tidyverse")

PmagDiR is stored in GitHub. To install it, devtools (package hosted in CRAN) is required. Please type:

• install.packages("devtools")
• library(devtools)
• install_github("edoardo-paleomag/PmagDiR")

3.STARTING MAGNETIC-A

After installation, all packages are automatically called by launching Magnetic-A. To do so, type this:

• shiny::runGitHub("Magnetic-A", "edoardo-paleomag")

Alternatively, download the full Magnetic-A content in a folder on your device and type:

• shiny::runApp("/Path_to_the _folder/Name_of_the_folder/")

The latter option allows to operate offline.

For help and inquiries, please contact me:

• edoardo.dallanave@unimi.it