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animint2 (version 2025.9.16)

Animated Interactive Grammar of Graphics

Description

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

Last Published

September 22nd, 2025

Functions in animint2 (2025.9.16)

Shiny ui output function

aes_linetype_size_shape

Differentiation related aesthetics: linetype, size, shape

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

Compile and render an animint in a local directory.

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

Automatic aesthetic mapping

aes_colour_fill_alpha

Colour related aesthetics: colour, fill and alpha

Create an animint

animint2-gganimintproto

Base gganimintproto classes for ggplot2

Create an annotation layer.

The breakpointError of simulated signals

Create a complete ggplot appropriate to a particular data type

Calculate the element properties, by inheriting properties from its parents

Coerce to labeller function

Create a layer of map borders.

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

Annotation: maps.

checkSingleShowSelectedValue

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

Filter out columns that do not need to be copied

coord_cartesian

Cartesian coordinates.

Check plot.list for errors

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

US economic time series.

Flipped cartesian coordinates.

Key drawing functions

Map projections.

Transformed cartesian coordinate system.

Cut up numeric vector into useful groups.

annotation_custom

Annotation: Custom grob.

checkExtraParams

Check extra_params argument for duplicates, non-named list

Polar coordinates.

annotation_logticks

Annotation: log tick marks

checkAnimationTimeVar

Check animation variable for errors

Lay out panels in a grid.

Munch coordinates data

Wrap a 1d ribbon of panels into 2d.

Facet specification: a single panel.

Learn the layout of panels within a plot.

Prices of 50,000 round cut diamonds

Discrete scale constructor.

Fortify method for classes from the sp package.

Facet specification.

Fortify method for map objects.

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

generation.loci

Evolution simulation

Theme element: text.

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

Bars, rectangles with bases on x-axis

Generate grid grob from theme element

Expand the plot limits with data.

Hexagon binning.

Histograms and frequency polygons.

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

Fortify a model with data.

Theme element: line.

Display contours of a 3d surface in 2d.

Theme element: rectangle.

Add heatmap of 2d bin counts.

Blank, draws nothing.

format.gganimintproto

Format a gganimintproto object

2d density estimate of Old Faithful data

Count the number of observations at each location.

geom_density_2d

Contours from a 2d density estimate.

Display a smooth density estimate.

Horizontal error bars

Points, jittered to reduce overplotting.

geom_label_aligned

Non-overlapping label boxes

Vertical intervals: lines, crossbars & errorbars.

Line segments and curves.

Marginal rug plots.

Polygons from a reference map.

Polygon, a filled path.

Ribbons and area plots.

Points, as for a scatterplot

Connect observations.

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

Add a smoothed conditional mean.

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

Gives a unique name to each layer in saveLayer

Save the common columns for each tsv to one chunk

Draw rectangles.

A line segment parameterised by location, direction and distance.

Get all parameters for a layer

Textual annotations.

Add a new component to a ggplot or theme object.

Function to get legend information from ggplot

Generate a ggplot2 plot grob.

Create a new ggplot plot.

getUniqueAxisLabels

Get unique axis labels for the plot

Function to get legend information for each scale

Function to process text size with different types of unit

Create a new gganimintproto object

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

Build ggplot for rendering.

Is this object a coordinate system?

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

Build a plot with all the usual bits and pieces.

graphical-units

Graphical units

Set guides for each scale.

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

guide_colourbar

Continuous colour bar guide.

Reports whether x is a rel object

Backquoted labeller

Interval regression

knit_print.animint

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

Generic labeller function for facets

issueSelectorWarnings

Issue warnings for selectors

Check if character is an RGB hexadecimal color value

Reports whether x is a theme object

Reports whether x is a ggplot object

is.gganimintproto

Is an object a gganimintproto object?

Is this object a facetting specification?

colors() in Luv space.

Create a new layer

Convenience functions to set the axis 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.

Retrieve the last plot to be modified or created.

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

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.

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

Labeller functions

Environment to store meta data

Calculate mean and standard errors on either side.

Define margins.

An updated and expanded version of the mammals sleep dataset.

Merge a list of data frames.

Midwest demographics.

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.

Convenvience function for a showSelected plot label.

Create a data frame of map data.

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

Terms of 11 presidents from Eisenhower to Obama.

Stack overlapping objects on top of one another.

position_jitterdodge

Adjust position by simultaneously dodging and jittering

Relative sizing for theme elements

Create an animint output element

Convert pt value to lines

print.gganimintproto

Print a gganimintproto object

Adjust position by dodging overlaps to the side.

Convert a ggplot to a list.

Convenience function to remove missing values from a data.frame

print.gganimintplot

Draw plot on current graphics device.

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

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

Objects exported from other packages

Compute the "resolution" of a data vector.

Use values without scaling.

scale_colour_hue

Qualitative colour scale with evenly spaced hues.

Position scale, date & date times

scale_x_discrete

Discrete position.

Create your own discrete scale.

Separate .variable/.value selectors

Set plot width and height for all plots

scale_continuous

Continuous position scales (x & y).

Scale size (area or radius).

Scale for shapes, aka glyphs.

Scale for line patterns.

Vector field of seal movements.

Plot data ellipses.

scale_size_animint

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

Empirical Cumulative Density Function

Used in examples to illustrate when errors should occur.

split_recursive

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

Identity statistic.

stat_summary_bin

Summarise y values at unique/binned x x.

theme for passing animint specific params

Calculation for quantile-quantile plot.

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

Set theme elements

Remove duplicates.

summary.gganimintplot

Displays a useful description of a ggplot object

stat_summary_2d

Bin and summarise in 2d (rectangle & hexagons)

Superimpose a function.

translate_qplot_ggplot

Translating between qplot and ggplot

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

Get, set and update themes.

Train position scales with data

Housing sales in TX.

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

Update axis/legend labels

A waiver object.

The zero grob draws nothing and has zero size.

World population by subcontinent

Modify properties of an element in a theme object

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

Demographics by country from 1960 to 2012

addShowSelectedForLegend

Add a showSelected aesthetic if legend is specified

Define aesthetic mappings.

addSSandCSasAesthetics

Add the showSelected/clickSelects params to the aesthetics mapping

Given a character vector, create a set of identity mappings

Tornadoes in the United States from 1950 to 2012