Manuscript: “‘It Is Unbearable To Breath Here’: Air Quality, Open Incineration, And Misinformation In Blantyre, Malawi”
This repository contains a reproducible manuscript for submission to the journal Habitat International.
Raw data and analysis-ready processed data is available as an R package at: https://github.com/Global-Health-Engineering/qechairquality (Schöbitz et al. 2023).
The data underlying the tables and figures of this manuscript are contained in this repo in data/processed-data/.
Figures were prepared using the Elsevier guidelines for artwork and media. The exported figures in TIFF format exceeded 100 MB per file and are not tracked in this repository. The automated exported figures from the Quarto markdown file are accessible in the repository.
R Statistical Software version 4.2.1, RStudio IDE version 2023.3.0.386, and Quarto scientific publishing system version were used for quantitative data analysis and writing of the manuscript (R Core Team 2022; Allaire et al. 2022; Posit team 2023).
A set of additional R packages were used for data wrangling, analysis, and visualisation (Wickham 2016, 2023; Grolemund and Wickham 2011; Wickham, François, et al. 2023; Wickham, Chang, et al. 2023; Firke 2023; Cheng, Karambelkar, and Xie 2023; Spinu, Grolemund, and Wickham 2023; Appelhans et al. 2022; Wickham, Hester, and Bryan 2023; Wickham, Vaughan, and Girlich 2023; Rudis and Gandy 2019).
The Quarto template for Elsevier journals was used to prepared the final submitted PDF document.
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