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animint2 (version 2025.10.17)

Animated Interactive Grammar of Graphics

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Functions are provided for defining animated, interactive data visualizations in R code, and rendering on a web page. The 2018 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics paper, describes the concepts implemented.

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install.packages('animint2')

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Toby Hocking

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Functions in animint2 (2025.10.17)

annotate

Create an annotation layer.
animint

Create an animint
animint2-gganimintproto

Base gganimintproto classes for ggplot2
aes_linetype_size_shape

Differentiation related aesthetics: linetype, size, shape
animint2dir

Compile and render an animint in a local directory.
aes_colour_fill_alpha

Colour related aesthetics: colour, fill and alpha
aes_position

Position related aesthetics: x, y, xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax, xend, yend
aes_auto

Automatic aesthetic mapping
animintOutput

Shiny ui output function
animint2pages

Publish a list of ggplots as interactive visualizations on a GitHub repository
benchplot

Benchmark plot creation time. Broken down into construct, build, render and draw times.
breakpoints

The breakpointError of simulated signals
calc_element

Calculate the element properties, by inheriting properties from its parents
annotation_custom

Annotation: Custom grob.
annotation_logticks

Annotation: log tick marks
as_labeller

Coerce to labeller function
autoplot

Create a complete ggplot appropriate to a particular data type
checkSingleShowSelectedValue

Issue warnings for non interactive plots where there is only one showSelected value
checkExtraParams

Check extra_params argument for duplicates, non-named list
annotation_map

Annotation: maps.
checkAnimationTimeVar

Check animation variable for errors
as.list.gganimintproto

Convert a gganimintproto object to a list
checkPlotList

Check plot.list for errors
checkPlotForAnimintExtensions

Performs error checking on the plot for animint extensions
checkForSSandCSasAesthetics

Check if showSelected and clickSelects have been used as aesthetics as in old syntax. If yes, raise error
coord_fixed

Cartesian coordinates with fixed relationship between x and y scales.
coord_flip

Flipped cartesian coordinates.
cut_interval

Cut up numeric vector into useful groups.
coord_munch

Munch coordinates data
coord_map

Map projections.
coord_polar

Polar coordinates.
borders

Create a layer of map borders.
discrete_scale

Discrete scale constructor.
continuous_scale

Continuous scale constructor.
coord_cartesian

Cartesian coordinates.
draw_key

Key drawing functions
element_line

Theme element: line.
facet_null

Facet specification: a single panel.
facet_grid

Lay out panels in a grid.
diamonds

Prices of 50,000 round cut diamonds
element_grob

Generate grid grob from theme element
expand_limits

Expand the plot limits with data.
coord_trans

Transformed cartesian coordinate system.
element_rect

Theme element: rectangle.
geom_bar

Bars, rectangles with bases on x-axis
element_text

Theme element: text.
format.gganimintproto

Format a gganimintproto object
geom_bin2d

Add heatmap of 2d bin counts.
economics

US economic time series.
fortify.lm

Supplement the data fitted to a linear model with model fit statistics.
fortify.map

Fortify method for map objects.
facet

Facet specification.
geom_errorbarh

Horizontal error bars
fortify

Fortify a model with data.
geom_density_2d

Contours from a 2d density estimate.
geom_dotplot

Dot plot
g_train_layout

Learn the layout of panels within a plot.
geom_contour

Display contours of a 3d surface in 2d.
geom_blank

Blank, draws nothing.
fortify.sp

Fortify method for classes from the sp package.
geom_freqpoly

Histograms and frequency polygons.
geom_jitter

Points, jittered to reduce overplotting.
geom_hex

Hexagon binning.
faithfuld

2d density estimate of Old Faithful data
element_blank

Theme element: blank. This theme element draws nothing, and assigns no space
geom_abline

Lines: horizontal, vertical, and specified by slope and intercept.
facet_wrap

Wrap a 1d ribbon of panels into 2d.
generation.loci

Evolution simulation
geom_path

Connect observations.
geom_map

Polygons from a reference map.
geom_segment

Line segments and curves.
geom_density

Display a smooth density estimate.
geom_count

Count the number of observations at each location.
geom_smooth

Add a smoothed conditional mean.
geom_spoke

A line segment parameterised by location, direction and distance.
geom_rect

Draw rectangles.
geom_label

Textual annotations.
geom_polygon

Polygon, a filled path.
getLegend

Function to get legend information for each scale
geom_point

Points, as for a scatterplot
getLayerParams

Get all parameters for a layer
geom_tallrect

ggplot2 geom with xmin and xmax aesthetics that covers the entire y range, useful for clickSelects background elements.
geom_ribbon

Ribbons and area plots.
geom_rug

Marginal rug plots.
geom_widerect

ggplot2 geom with ymin and ymax aesthetics that covers the entire x range, useful for clickSelects background elements.
getLayerName

Gives a unique name to each layer in saveLayer
ggplot_build

Build ggplot for rendering.
getCommonChunk

Save the common columns for each tsv to one chunk
geom_violin

Violin plot.
ggplot_gtable

Build a plot with all the usual bits and pieces.
geom_crossbar

Vertical intervals: lines, crossbars & errorbars.
geom_label_aligned

Non-overlapping label boxes
ggplot

Create a new ggplot plot.
ggplotGrob

Generate a ggplot2 plot grob.
getUniqueAxisLabels

Get unique axis labels for the plot
getLegendList

Function to get legend information from ggplot
getTextSize

Function to process text size with different types of unit
+.gganimint

Add a new component to a ggplot or theme object.
guide_legend

Legend guide.
gganimintproto

Create a new gganimintproto object
guides

Set guides for each scale.
gg_dep

Give a deprecation error, warning, or message, depending on version number.
guide_colourbar

Continuous colour bar guide.
graphical-units

Graphical units
is.rgb

Check if character is an RGB hexadecimal color value
is.rel

Reports whether x is a rel object
intreg

Interval regression
hmisc

Wrap up a selection of summary functions from Hmisc to make it easy to use with stat_summary.
labellers

Labeller functions
labeller

Generic labeller function for facets
is.Coord

Is this object a coordinate system?
labs

Change axis labels, legend titles, plot title/subtitle and below-plot caption.
is.facet

Is this object a facetting specification?
make_text

Convenvience function for a showSelected plot label.
is.theme

Reports whether x is a theme object
make_tallrect_or_widerect

Make a clickSelects geom_widerect or geom_tallrect that completely tiles the x or y range. This function is used internally by make_tallrect or make_widerect, which are more user-friendly.
issueSelectorWarnings

Issue warnings for selectors
knit_print.animint

Insert an interactive animation into an R markdown document using a customized print method.
label_bquote

Backquoted labeller
mean_se

Calculate mean and standard errors on either side.
margin

Define margins.
layer

Create a new layer
newEnvironment

Environment to store meta data
limits

Generate correct scale type for specified limits
is.gganimintproto

Is an object a gganimintproto object?
print.animint

print animint
presidential

Terms of 11 presidents from Eisenhower to Obama.
merge_recurse

Merge a list of data frames.
lims

Convenience functions to set the axis limits.
luv_colours

colors() in Luv space.
is.ggplot

Reports whether x is a ggplot object
pt.to.lines

Convert pt value to lines
parsePlot

Convert a ggplot to a list.
position_jitterdodge

Adjust position by simultaneously dodging and jittering
midwest

Midwest demographics.
position_jitter

Jitter points to avoid overplotting.
renderAnimint

Create an animint output element
position_identity

Don't adjust position
position_dodge

Adjust position by dodging overlaps to the side.
remove_missing

Convenience function to remove missing values from a data.frame
map_data

Create a data frame of map data.
make_widerect

Make a clickSelects geom_widerect that completely tiles the y range. This makes it easy to construct widerects for the common case of selecting a particular y value.
saveChunks

Split data set into chunks and save them to separate files.
position_fill

Stack overlapping objects on top of one another.
resolution

Compute the "resolution" of a data vector.
scale_identity

Use values without scaling.
position_nudge

Nudge points.
scale_linetype

Scale for line patterns.
scale_manual

Create your own discrete scale.
reexports

Objects exported from other packages
scale_date

Position scale, date & date times
rel

Relative sizing for theme elements
scale_continuous

Continuous position scales (x & y).
selectSSandCS

Separate .variable/.value selectors
seals

Vector field of seal movements.
qplot

Quick plot
scale_size

Scale size (area or radius).
scale_size_animint

Scale point sizes using circle area, but specifying the radius in pixels.
scale_alpha

Alpha scales.
scale_colour_grey

Sequential grey colour scale.
scale_colour_brewer

Sequential, diverging and qualitative colour scales from colorbrewer.org
scale_colour_hue

Qualitative colour scale with evenly spaced hues.
last_plot

Retrieve the last plot to be modified or created.
switch_axes

Flip axes in case of coord_flip Switches column names. Eg. xmin to ymin, yntercept to xintercept etc.
scale_shape

Scale for shapes, aka glyphs.
split_recursive

Split data.frame into recursive list of data.frame.
stat_ecdf

Empirical Cumulative Density Function
theme

Set theme elements
theme_update

Get, set and update themes.
theme_animint

theme for passing animint specific params
should_stop

Used in examples to illustrate when errors should occur.
setPlotSizes

Set plot width and height for all plots
make_bar

Convenience function for an interactive bar that might otherwise be created using stat_summary(geom="bar").
ggtheme

ggplot2 themes
make_tallrect

Make a clickSelects geom_tallrect that completely tiles the x range. This makes it easy to construct tallrects for the common case of selecting a particular x value.
ggsave

Save a ggplot (or other grid object) with sensible defaults
stat_summary_bin

Summarise y values at unique/binned x x.
stat_summary_2d

Bin and summarise in 2d (rectangle & hexagons)
stat_identity

Identity statistic.
stat_qq

Calculation for quantile-quantile plot.
translate_qplot_ggplot

Translating between qplot and ggplot
txhousing

Housing sales in TX.
update_geom_defaults

Modify geom/stat aesthetic defaults for future plots
mpg

Fuel economy data from 1999 and 2008 for 38 popular models of car
msleep

An updated and expanded version of the mammals sleep dataset.
translate_qplot_lattice

Translating between qplot and lattice
train_position

Train position scales with data
toRGB

Convert R colors to RGB hexadecimal color values
varied.chunk

Extract subset for each data.frame in a list of data.frame
waiver

A waiver object.
scale_x_discrete

Discrete position.
stat_ellipse

Plot data ellipses.
stat_unique

Remove duplicates.
scale_colour_gradient

Smooth gradient between two colours
print.gganimintproto

Print a gganimintproto object
stat_function

Superimpose a function.
print.gganimintplot

Draw plot on current graphics device.
transform_shape

Function to transform R shapes into d3 shapes...
transform_position

Convenience function to transform all position variables.
summary.gganimintplot

Displays a useful description of a ggplot object
update_labels

Update axis/legend labels
update_gallery

Update gallery
zeroGrob

The zero grob draws nothing and has zero size.
worldPop

World population by subcontinent
WorldBank

Demographics by country from 1960 to 2012
addSSandCSasAesthetics

Add the showSelected/clickSelects params to the aesthetics mapping
addShowSelectedForLegend

Add a showSelected aesthetic if legend is specified
add_theme

Modify properties of an element in a theme object
aes

Define aesthetic mappings.
aes_

Define aesthetic mappings from strings, or quoted calls and formulas.
absoluteGrob

Absolute grob
FluView

FluView
aes_all

Given a character vector, create a set of identity mappings
UStornadoes

Tornadoes in the United States from 1950 to 2012