Introduction

This interactive report has been created to demonstrate the functionality of R Markdown and Bookdown, as an additional tool that actuaries and others can avail of. Each page of the application (with the exception of the combined SORP Calculator and Drawdown Simulation) has been rebuilt using miniUI [1], an R library used to create Shiny Widgets. However, these “mini-apps” do not fully replicate the main application. Similarly, this interactive report does not intend to replace the original - it merely serves to compliment it.

With this in mind, it is highly encouraged that the reader takes time to familiarise themselves with the main application, which can be accessed with the following link:

https://ms4090-r-for-actuaries.shinyapps.io/actuarial-tasks