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animint2 (version 2025.9.16)

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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2025.9.16

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GPL-3

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Toby Hocking

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September 22nd, 2025

Functions in animint2 (2025.9.16)

animintOutput

Shiny ui output function
aes_linetype_size_shape

Differentiation related aesthetics: linetype, size, shape
aes_position

Position related aesthetics: x, y, xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax, xend, yend
animint2dir

Compile and render an animint in a local directory.
animint2pages

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

Automatic aesthetic mapping
aes_colour_fill_alpha

Colour related aesthetics: colour, fill and alpha
animint

Create an animint
animint2-gganimintproto

Base gganimintproto classes for ggplot2
annotate

Create an annotation layer.
breakpoints

The breakpointError of simulated signals
autoplot

Create a complete ggplot appropriate to a particular data type
calc_element

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

Coerce to labeller function
borders

Create a layer of map borders.
benchplot

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

Annotation: maps.
checkSingleShowSelectedValue

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

Filter out columns that do not need to be copied
coord_cartesian

Cartesian coordinates.
checkPlotList

Check plot.list for errors
coord_fixed

Cartesian coordinates with fixed relationship between x and y scales.
as.list.gganimintproto

Convert a gganimintproto object to a list
continuous_scale

Continuous scale constructor.
checkForSSandCSasAesthetics

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

Performs error checking on the plot for animint extensions
economics

US economic time series.
coord_flip

Flipped cartesian coordinates.
draw_key

Key drawing functions
coord_map

Map projections.
coord_trans

Transformed cartesian coordinate system.
cut_interval

Cut up numeric vector into useful groups.
annotation_custom

Annotation: Custom grob.
checkExtraParams

Check extra_params argument for duplicates, non-named list
coord_polar

Polar coordinates.
annotation_logticks

Annotation: log tick marks
checkAnimationTimeVar

Check animation variable for errors
facet_grid

Lay out panels in a grid.
coord_munch

Munch coordinates data
facet_wrap

Wrap a 1d ribbon of panels into 2d.
facet_null

Facet specification: a single panel.
g_train_layout

Learn the layout of panels within a plot.
diamonds

Prices of 50,000 round cut diamonds
discrete_scale

Discrete scale constructor.
fortify.sp

Fortify method for classes from the sp package.
facet

Facet specification.
fortify.map

Fortify method for map objects.
geom_abline

Lines: horizontal, vertical, and specified by slope and intercept.
generation.loci

Evolution simulation
element_text

Theme element: text.
element_blank

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

Bars, rectangles with bases on x-axis
element_grob

Generate grid grob from theme element
expand_limits

Expand the plot limits with data.
geom_hex

Hexagon binning.
geom_freqpoly

Histograms and frequency polygons.
fortify.lm

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

Fortify a model with data.
element_line

Theme element: line.
geom_contour

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

Theme element: rectangle.
geom_bin2d

Add heatmap of 2d bin counts.
geom_blank

Blank, draws nothing.
format.gganimintproto

Format a gganimintproto object
faithfuld

2d density estimate of Old Faithful data
geom_count

Count the number of observations at each location.
geom_density_2d

Contours from a 2d density estimate.
geom_density

Display a smooth density estimate.
geom_errorbarh

Horizontal error bars
geom_dotplot

Dot plot
geom_jitter

Points, jittered to reduce overplotting.
geom_label_aligned

Non-overlapping label boxes
geom_crossbar

Vertical intervals: lines, crossbars & errorbars.
geom_segment

Line segments and curves.
geom_rug

Marginal rug plots.
geom_map

Polygons from a reference map.
geom_polygon

Polygon, a filled path.
geom_ribbon

Ribbons and area plots.
geom_point

Points, as for a scatterplot
geom_path

Connect observations.
geom_tallrect

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

Add a smoothed conditional mean.
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
getCommonChunk

Save the common columns for each tsv to one chunk
geom_rect

Draw rectangles.
geom_spoke

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

Get all parameters for a layer
geom_label

Textual annotations.
geom_violin

Violin plot.
+.gganimint

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

Function to get legend information from ggplot
ggplotGrob

Generate a ggplot2 plot grob.
ggplot

Create a new ggplot plot.
getUniqueAxisLabels

Get unique axis labels for the plot
getLegend

Function to get legend information for each scale
getTextSize

Function to process text size with different types of unit
gganimintproto

Create a new gganimintproto object
gg_dep

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

Build ggplot for rendering.
guide_legend

Legend guide.
is.Coord

Is this object a coordinate system?
ggtheme

ggplot2 themes
hmisc

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

Build a plot with all the usual bits and pieces.
graphical-units

Graphical units
guides

Set guides for each scale.
ggsave

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

Continuous colour bar guide.
is.rel

Reports whether x is a rel object
label_bquote

Backquoted labeller
intreg

Interval regression
knit_print.animint

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

Generic labeller function for facets
issueSelectorWarnings

Issue warnings for selectors
is.rgb

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

Reports whether x is a theme object
is.ggplot

Reports whether x is a ggplot object
is.gganimintproto

Is an object a gganimintproto object?
is.facet

Is this object a facetting specification?
luv_colours

colors() in Luv space.
layer

Create a new layer
lims

Convenience functions to set the axis limits.
limits

Generate correct scale type for specified limits
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.
last_plot

Retrieve the last plot to be modified or created.
make_bar

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

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

Labeller functions
newEnvironment

Environment to store meta data
mean_se

Calculate mean and standard errors on either side.
margin

Define margins.
msleep

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

Merge a list of data frames.
midwest

Midwest demographics.
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.
make_text

Convenvience function for a showSelected plot label.
map_data

Create a data frame of map data.
mpg

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

Jitter points to avoid overplotting.
position_identity

Don't adjust position
presidential

Terms of 11 presidents from Eisenhower to Obama.
position_fill

Stack overlapping objects on top of one another.
position_jitterdodge

Adjust position by simultaneously dodging and jittering
rel

Relative sizing for theme elements
renderAnimint

Create an animint output element
position_nudge

Nudge points.
pt.to.lines

Convert pt value to lines
print.gganimintproto

Print a gganimintproto object
position_dodge

Adjust position by dodging overlaps to the side.
parsePlot

Convert a ggplot to a list.
remove_missing

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

Alpha scales.
print.animint

print animint
print.gganimintplot

Draw plot on current graphics device.
saveChunks

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

Quick plot
scale_colour_brewer

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

Sequential grey colour scale.
scale_colour_gradient

Smooth gradient between two colours
reexports

Objects exported from other packages
resolution

Compute the "resolution" of a data vector.
scale_identity

Use values without scaling.
scale_colour_hue

Qualitative colour scale with evenly spaced hues.
scale_date

Position scale, date & date times
scale_x_discrete

Discrete position.
scale_manual

Create your own discrete scale.
selectSSandCS

Separate .variable/.value selectors
setPlotSizes

Set plot width and height for all plots
scale_continuous

Continuous position scales (x & y).
scale_size

Scale size (area or radius).
scale_shape

Scale for shapes, aka glyphs.
scale_linetype

Scale for line patterns.
seals

Vector field of seal movements.
stat_ellipse

Plot data ellipses.
scale_size_animint

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

Empirical Cumulative Density Function
should_stop

Used in examples to illustrate when errors should occur.
split_recursive

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

Identity statistic.
stat_summary_bin

Summarise y values at unique/binned x x.
theme_animint

theme for passing animint specific params
stat_qq

Calculation for quantile-quantile plot.
switch_axes

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

Set theme elements
stat_unique

Remove duplicates.
summary.gganimintplot

Displays a useful description of a ggplot object
stat_summary_2d

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

Superimpose a function.
translate_qplot_ggplot

Translating between qplot and ggplot
update_gallery

Update gallery
toRGB

Convert R colors to RGB hexadecimal color values
transform_shape

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

Modify geom/stat aesthetic defaults for future plots
transform_position

Convenience function to transform all position variables.
translate_qplot_lattice

Translating between qplot and lattice
theme_update

Get, set and update themes.
train_position

Train position scales with data
txhousing

Housing sales in TX.
varied.chunk

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

Update axis/legend labels
waiver

A waiver object.
zeroGrob

The zero grob draws nothing and has zero size.
worldPop

World population by subcontinent
add_theme

Modify properties of an element in a theme object
aes_

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

Demographics by country from 1960 to 2012
addShowSelectedForLegend

Add a showSelected aesthetic if legend is specified
aes

Define aesthetic mappings.
addSSandCSasAesthetics

Add the showSelected/clickSelects params to the aesthetics mapping
FluView

FluView
absoluteGrob

Absolute grob
aes_all

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

Tornadoes in the United States from 1950 to 2012