README.md

mwanaApp: A seamless graphical interface to the mwana R package for data wrangling, plausibility checks, and prevalence estimation

mwanaApp is a lightweight, field-ready application thoughtful designed to seamlessly streamline plausibility checks and wasting prevalence estimation of child anthropometric data, by automating key steps of the R package mwana for non-R users.

The app is divided in six easy-to-navigate tabs:

1. Home
2. Data Upload
3. Data Wrangling
4. Plausibility Check
5. Prevalence Analysis
6. IPC Check

Installation

The App can be installed from GitHub:

# First install remotes package with: install.package("remotes")
# The install mwana package from GitHub with: 
remotes::install_github(repo = "mphimo/mwanaApp", dependencies = TRUE)

Once installed, the app can be launched by running the below-given command in R console:

run_mwana_app()

The app can be cited in this way:

citation("mwanaApp")

To cite mwanaApp in publications use:

  Tomás Zaba (2026). _mwanaApp: A seamless graphical interface to the
  mwana R package for data wrangling, plausibility checks, and
  prevalence estimation_. R package version 0.2.0,
  <https://github.com/mphimo/mwanaApp>.

A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is

  @Manual{,
    title = {mwanaApp: A seamless graphical interface to the mwana R package for data wrangling, plausibility checks, and prevalence estimation},
    author = {{Tomás Zaba}},
    year = {2026},
    note = {R package version 0.2.0},
    url = {https://github.com/mphimo/mwanaApp},
  }