Kincounts

Kincounts is a research project for modeling how fertility distributions shape sibling and kin distributions, and for estimating findability in long-range familial search.

This repository includes:

• A Quarto website with methods, derivations, and analysis outputs
• A Shiny app for interactive parameter estimation and simulation
• Data and output folders with example and generated files

Project layout

• _quarto.yml: Quarto website configuration
• analysis: analysis pages and supporting files
• app: Shiny app code
• data: input datasets
• output: generated outputs from analyses/simulations
• docs: rendered site output
• renv-setup.R: helper script to install analysis package dependencies

Prerequisites

• R (recommended recent version)
• Quarto CLI installed and available in PATH

Optional for interactive app use:

• R packages used by the app: shiny, bslib, DT

Setup

Run the analysis dependency setup script:

Rscript renv-setup.R

If you also plan to run the Shiny app, install app dependencies:

install.packages(c("shiny", "bslib", "DT"), repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org")

Build and preview the website

Render the full Quarto site:

quarto render

Start live preview:

quarto preview

Rendered output is written to docs.

Run the Shiny app

From R:

shiny::runApp("app/app.R")

Notes

• Site navigation and global rendering options are configured in _quarto.yml.
• Analysis pages include both methodological derivations and simulation/model-fitting code.
• The repository may include generated artifacts in docs and output, depending on your workflow.