Animation

old_wd <- setwd(dirname(knitr::current_input()))
on.exit(setwd(old_wd), add = TRUE)

# Load required libraries
invisible(lapply(required_pkgs, library, character.only = TRUE))

# Create a static plot
p <-
  ggplot(
    iris,
    aes(
      x = Sepal.Length,
      y = Sepal.Width,
      color = Species)
    ) +
  geom_point() +
  labs(
    title = 'Iris Sepal Measurements'
    )

# Animate the plot by transitioning through Species
anim <-
  p + transition_states(
    Species,
    transition_length = 2,
    state_length = 1
    ) +
  enter_fade() +
  exit_fade()

# Render
animate(anim, nframes = 100, fps = 10)

Session Info

sessionInfo()

## R version 4.5.2 (2025-10-31)
## Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
## Running under: Linux Mint 22.2
## 
## Matrix products: default
## BLAS:   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/blas/libblas.so.3.12.0 
## LAPACK: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/lapack/liblapack.so.3.12.0  LAPACK version 3.12.0
## 
## locale:
##  [1] LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8       LC_NUMERIC=C              
##  [3] LC_TIME=en_CA.UTF-8        LC_COLLATE=en_CA.UTF-8    
##  [5] LC_MONETARY=en_CA.UTF-8    LC_MESSAGES=en_CA.UTF-8   
##  [7] LC_PAPER=en_CA.UTF-8       LC_NAME=C                 
##  [9] LC_ADDRESS=C               LC_TELEPHONE=C            
## [11] LC_MEASUREMENT=en_CA.UTF-8 LC_IDENTIFICATION=C       
## 
## time zone: America/Toronto
## tzcode source: system (glibc)
## 
## attached base packages:
## [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     
## 
## loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
##  [1] vctrs_0.7.1        cli_3.6.5          knitr_1.51         rlang_1.1.7       
##  [5] xfun_0.56          otel_0.2.0         generics_0.1.4     S7_0.2.1          
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## [13] scales_1.4.0       rmarkdown_2.30     grid_4.5.2         tibble_3.3.1      
## [17] evaluate_1.0.5     jquerylib_0.1.4    fastmap_1.2.0      yaml_2.3.12       
## [21] lifecycle_1.0.5    bookdown_0.46      compiler_4.5.2     dplyr_1.2.0       
## [25] RColorBrewer_1.1-3 pkgconfig_2.0.3    blogdown_1.23      farver_2.1.2      
## [29] digest_0.6.39      R6_2.6.1           tidyselect_1.2.1   pillar_1.11.1     
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