Package: animint2 2026.4.28

Toby Hocking

animint2: Animated Interactive Grammar of Graphics

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, <doi:10.1080/10618600.2018.1513367> describes the concepts implemented.

Authors:Toby Hocking [aut, cre], Biplab Sutradhar [ctb], Hadley Wickham [aut], Winston Chang [aut], RStudio [cph], Nicholas Lewin-Koh [aut], Martin Maechler [aut], Randall Prium [aut], Susan VanderPlas [aut], Carson Sievert [aut], Kevin Ferris [aut], Jun Cai [aut], Faizan Khan [aut], Vivek Kumar [aut], Himanshu Singh [aut], Yufan Fei [aut], Jocelyne Chen [aut], Siddhesh Deodhar [aut], Suhaani Agarwal [aut], Gaurav Chaudhary [ctb], Nandani Aggarwal [ctb]

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# Install 'animint2' in R:

install.packages('animint2', repos = c('https://animint.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/animint/animint2/issues

Pkgdown/docs site:https://animint.github.io

Datasets:

breakpoints - The breakpointError of simulated signals
change - Graphical model structure change
ChromHMMiterations - ChromHMM iterations
climate - Climate data in central America from 1995 to 2000
compare - Testing rank and compare SVM on simulated patterns
diamonds - Prices of 50,000 round cut diamonds
economics - US economic time series.
economics_long - US economic time series.
faithfuld - 2d density estimate of Old Faithful data
FluView - FluView
FunctionalPruning - Functional Pruning Algorithm
generation.loci - Evolution simulation
intreg - Interval regression
luv_colours - 'colors()' in Luv space.
malaria - Malaria parasite genome variants
midwest - Midwest demographics.
mixtureKNN - K-Nearest-Neighbors model of the mixture example data
montreal.bikes - Montreal bikes
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.
PeakConsistency - Consistency of segmentation models in simulated Poisson peaks
pirates - Worldwide pirate attacks from 1978 to 2013
presidential - Terms of 11 presidents from Eisenhower to Obama.
prior - Class prior change
prostateLasso - Lasso model of the prostate cancer data set
seals - Vector field of seal movements.
TestROC - Test ROC curves
txhousing - Housing sales in TX.
UStornadoes - Tornadoes in the United States from 1950 to 2012
VariantModels - Error rates of supervised learning methods for variant calling
vervet - Vervet monkey intestinal microbiome
WorldBank - Demographics by country from 1960 to 2012
worldPop - World population by subcontinent

On CRAN:

9.65 score 77 stars 361 scripts 396 downloads 387 exports 35 dependencies

Last updated from:e447188c28. Checks:5 ERROR, 2 OK, 2 FAIL. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Time
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macos-oldrel-arm64	FAIL	3763
windows-devel	ERROR	1180
windows-release	ERROR	1142
windows-oldrel	ERROR	1166
wasm-release	OK	191

Exports:.pt .stroke %+%%+replace%a_scales_list aes aes_aes_all aes_auto aes_q aes_string alpha animint animint2dir animint2pages animintOutput annotate annotation_custom annotation_logticks annotation_map arrow as_labeller autoplot benchplot borders calc_element continuous_scale Coord coord_cartesian coord_equal coord_fixed coord_flip coord_map coord_munch coord_polar coord_quickmap coord_trans CoordCartesian CoordFixed CoordFlip CoordMap CoordPolar CoordQuickmap CoordTrans cut_interval cut_number cut_width discrete_scale draw_key_abline draw_key_blank draw_key_crossbar draw_key_dotplot draw_key_label draw_key_path draw_key_point draw_key_pointrange draw_key_polygon draw_key_rect draw_key_smooth draw_key_text draw_key_vline draw_key_vpath element_blank element_grob element_line element_rect element_text expand_limits facet facet_grid facet_null facet_wrap fortify Geom geom_abline geom_area geom_bar geom_bin2d geom_blank geom_contour geom_count geom_crossbar geom_curve geom_density geom_density_2d geom_density2d geom_dotplot geom_errorbar geom_errorbarh geom_freqpoly geom_hex geom_histogram geom_hline geom_jitter geom_label geom_label_aligned geom_line geom_linerange geom_map geom_path geom_point geom_pointrange geom_polygon geom_qq geom_rect geom_ribbon geom_rug geom_segment geom_smooth geom_spoke geom_step geom_tallrect geom_text geom_tile geom_violin geom_vline geom_widerect GeomAbline GeomAnnotationMap GeomArea GeomBar GeomBin2d GeomBlank GeomContour GeomCrossbar GeomCurve GeomCustomAnn GeomDensity GeomDensity2d GeomErrorbar GeomErrorbarh GeomFreqpoly GeomHex GeomHline GeomLabel GeomLabelAligned GeomLine GeomLinerange GeomLogticks GeomMap GeomPath GeomPoint GeomPointrange GeomPolygon GeomRect GeomRibbon GeomRug GeomSegment GeomSmooth GeomSpoke GeomStep GeomTallRect GeomText GeomTile GeomViolin GeomVline GeomWideRect getLegendList gg_dep gganimintproto gganimintproto_parent ggplot ggplot_build ggplot_gtable ggplotGrob ggsave ggtitle guide_colorbar guide_colourbar guide_legend guides is.Coord is.facet is.gganimintproto is.ggplot is.rgb is.theme label_both label_bquote label_context label_parsed label_value label_wrap_gen labeller labs last_plot layer layer_data layer_grob layer_scales lims make_bar make_tallrect make_tallrect_or_widerect make_text make_widerect map_data margin mean_cl_boot mean_cl_normal mean_sdl mean_se median_hilow parsePlot Position position_dodge position_fill position_identity position_jitter position_jitterdodge position_nudge position_stack PositionDodge PositionFill PositionIdentity PositionJitter PositionJitterdodge PositionNudge PositionStack qplot quickplot rel remove_missing renderAnimint resolution Scale scale_alpha scale_alpha_continuous scale_alpha_discrete scale_alpha_identity scale_alpha_manual scale_color_brewer scale_color_continuous scale_color_discrete scale_color_distiller scale_color_gradient scale_color_gradient2 scale_color_gradientn scale_color_grey scale_color_hue scale_color_identity scale_color_manual scale_colour_brewer scale_colour_continuous scale_colour_date scale_colour_datetime scale_colour_discrete scale_colour_distiller scale_colour_gradient scale_colour_gradient2 scale_colour_gradientn scale_colour_grey scale_colour_hue scale_colour_identity scale_colour_manual scale_fill_brewer scale_fill_continuous scale_fill_date scale_fill_datetime scale_fill_discrete scale_fill_distiller scale_fill_gradient scale_fill_gradient2 scale_fill_gradientn scale_fill_grey scale_fill_hue scale_fill_identity scale_fill_manual scale_linetype scale_linetype_continuous scale_linetype_discrete scale_linetype_identity scale_linetype_manual scale_radius scale_shape scale_shape_continuous scale_shape_discrete scale_shape_identity scale_shape_manual scale_size scale_size_animint scale_size_area scale_size_continuous scale_size_date scale_size_datetime scale_size_discrete scale_size_identity scale_size_manual scale_x_continuous scale_x_date scale_x_datetime scale_x_discrete scale_x_log10 scale_x_reverse scale_x_sqrt scale_y_continuous scale_y_date scale_y_datetime scale_y_discrete scale_y_log10 scale_y_reverse scale_y_sqrt ScaleContinuous ScaleContinuousDate ScaleContinuousDatetime ScaleContinuousIdentity ScaleContinuousPosition ScaleDiscrete ScaleDiscreteIdentity ScaleDiscretePosition ScalesList should_stop Stat stat_bin stat_bin_2d stat_bin_hex stat_bin2d stat_binhex stat_contour stat_count stat_density stat_density_2d stat_density2d stat_ecdf stat_ellipse stat_function stat_identity stat_qq stat_smooth stat_spoke stat_sum stat_summary stat_summary_2d stat_summary_bin stat_summary_hex stat_summary2d stat_unique stat_ydensity StatBin StatBin2d StatBindot StatBinhex StatContour StatCount StatDensity StatDensity2d StatEcdf StatEllipse StatFunction StatIdentity StatQq StatSmooth StatSum StatSummary StatSummary2d StatSummaryBin StatSummaryHex StatUnique StatYdensity theme theme_animint theme_bw theme_classic theme_dark theme_get theme_gray theme_grey theme_light theme_linedraw theme_minimal theme_replace theme_set theme_update theme_void toRGB transform_position unit update_gallery update_geom_defaults update_labels update_stat_defaults waiver xlab xlim ylab ylim zeroGrob

Dependencies:cli data.table digest evaluate farver fastmap glue gtable highr httpuv jsonlite knitr labeling later lifecycle magrittr MASS mime otel plyr promises R6 RColorBrewer Rcpp reshape2 RJSONIO rlang scales servr stringi stringr vctrs viridisLite xfun yaml

Animint2 Quick Start Guide

Rendered fromanimint2.Rmdusingknitr::knitr

Last update: 2023-11-16
Started: 2023-09-13

Help page	Topics
Add a new component to a ggplot or theme object.	%+% %+replace% +.gganimint
Modify properties of an element in a theme object	add_theme
Add a showSelected aesthetic if legend is specified	addShowSelectedForLegend
Add the showSelected/clickSelects params to the aesthetics mapping	addSSandCSasAesthetics
Define aesthetic mappings.	aes
Define aesthetic mappings from strings, or quoted calls and formulas.	aes_ aes_q aes_string
Colour related aesthetics: colour, fill and alpha	aes_colour_fill_alpha color colour fill
Differentiation related aesthetics: linetype, size, shape	aes_linetype_size_shape linetype shape size
Position related aesthetics: x, y, xmin, xmax, ymin, ymax, xend, yend	aes_position x xend xmax xmin y yend ymax ymin
Create an animint	animint
Compile and render an animint in a local directory.	animint2dir
Publish a list of ggplots as interactive visualizations on a GitHub repository	animint2pages
Shiny ui output function	animintOutput
Create an annotation layer.	annotate
Annotation: Custom grob.	annotation_custom
Annotation: log tick marks	annotation_logticks
Annotation: maps.	annotation_map
Coerce to labeller function	as_labeller
Convert a gganimintproto object to a list	as.list.gganimintproto
Create a complete ggplot appropriate to a particular data type	autoplot
Create a layer of map borders.	borders
The breakpointError of simulated signals	breakpoints
Calculate the element properties, by inheriting properties from its parents	calc_element
Graphical model structure change	change
Check animation variable for errors	checkAnimationTimeVar
Check 'extra_params' argument for duplicates, non-named list	checkExtraParams
Check if showSelected and clickSelects have been used as aesthetics as in old syntax. If yes, raise error	checkForSSandCSasAesthetics
Performs error checking on the plot for animint extensions	checkPlotForAnimintExtensions
Check plot.list for errors	checkPlotList
Issue warnings for non interactive plots where there is only one showSelected value	checkSingleShowSelectedValue
ChromHMM iterations	ChromHMMiterations
Climate data in central America from 1995 to 2000	climate
Testing rank and compare SVM on simulated patterns	compare
Cartesian coordinates.	coord_cartesian
Cartesian coordinates with fixed relationship between x and y scales.	coord_equal coord_fixed
Flipped cartesian coordinates.	coord_flip
Map projections.	coord_map coord_quickmap
Polar coordinates.	coord_polar
Transformed cartesian coordinate system.	coord_trans
Cut up numeric vector into useful groups.	cut_interval cut_number cut_width
Prices of 50,000 round cut diamonds	diamonds
US economic time series.	economics economics_long
Theme element: blank. This theme element draws nothing, and assigns no space	element_blank
Theme element: line.	element_line
Theme element: rectangle.	element_rect
Theme element: text.	element_text
Expand the plot limits with data.	expand_limits
Lay out panels in a grid.	facet_grid
Facet specification: a single panel.	facet_null
Wrap a 1d ribbon of panels into 2d.	facet_wrap
2d density estimate of Old Faithful data	faithfuld
FluView	FluView
Format a gganimintproto object	format.gganimintproto
Fortify a model with data.	fortify
Supplement the data fitted to a linear model with model fit statistics.	fortify.lm
Fortify method for map objects.	fortify.map
Fortify method for classes from the sp package.	fortify.Line fortify.Lines fortify.Polygon fortify.Polygons fortify.sp fortify.SpatialLinesDataFrame fortify.SpatialPolygons fortify.SpatialPolygonsDataFrame
Functional Pruning Algorithm	FunctionalPruning
Evolution simulation	generation.loci
Lines: horizontal, vertical, and specified by slope and intercept.	geom_abline geom_hline geom_vline
Bars, rectangles with bases on x-axis	geom_bar stat_count
Add heatmap of 2d bin counts.	geom_bin2d stat_bin2d stat_bin_2d
Blank, draws nothing.	geom_blank
Display contours of a 3d surface in 2d.	geom_contour stat_contour
Count the number of observations at each location.	geom_count stat_sum
Vertical intervals: lines, crossbars & errorbars.	geom_crossbar geom_errorbar geom_linerange geom_pointrange
Display a smooth density estimate.	geom_density stat_density
Contours from a 2d density estimate.	geom_density2d geom_density_2d stat_density2d stat_density_2d
Horizontal error bars	geom_errorbarh
Histograms and frequency polygons.	geom_freqpoly geom_histogram stat_bin
Hexagon binning.	geom_hex stat_binhex stat_bin_hex
Points, jittered to reduce overplotting.	geom_jitter
Textual annotations.	geom_label geom_text
Non-overlapping label boxes	geom_label_aligned
Polygons from a reference map.	geom_map
Connect observations.	geom_line geom_path geom_step
Points, as for a scatterplot	geom_point
Polygon, a filled path.	geom_polygon
Draw rectangles.	geom_rect geom_tile
Ribbons and area plots.	geom_area geom_ribbon
Marginal rug plots.	geom_rug
Line segments and curves.	geom_curve geom_segment
Add a smoothed conditional mean.	geom_smooth stat_smooth
A line segment parameterised by location, direction and distance.	geom_spoke stat_spoke
ggplot2 geom with xmin and xmax aesthetics that covers the entire y range, useful for clickSelects background elements.	geom_tallrect
Violin plot.	geom_violin stat_ydensity
ggplot2 geom with ymin and ymax aesthetics that covers the entire x range, useful for clickSelects background elements.	geom_widerect
Save the common columns for each tsv to one chunk	getCommonChunk
Gives a unique name to each layer in 'saveLayer'	getLayerName
Get all parameters for a layer	getLayerParams
Function to get legend information for each scale	getLegend
Function to get legend information from ggplot	getLegendList
Function to process text size with different types of unit	getTextSize
Get unique axis labels for the plot	getUniqueAxisLabels
Create a new gganimintproto object	gganimintproto gganimintproto_parent
Create a new ggplot plot.	ggplot ggplot.data.frame ggplot.default
Save a ggplot (or other grid object) with sensible defaults	ggsave
ggplot2 themes	ggtheme theme_bw theme_classic theme_dark theme_gray theme_grey theme_light theme_linedraw theme_minimal theme_void
Graphical units	.pt .stroke graphical-units
Continuous colour bar guide.	guide_colorbar guide_colourbar
Legend guide.	guide_legend
Set guides for each scale.	guides
Wrap up a selection of summary functions from Hmisc to make it easy to use with 'stat_summary'.	hmisc mean_cl_boot mean_cl_normal mean_sdl median_hilow
Interval regression	intreg
Is an object a gganimintproto object?	is.gganimintproto
Reports whether x is a rel object	is.rel
Check if character is an RGB hexadecimal color value	is.rgb
Reports whether x is a theme object	is.theme
Issue warnings for selectors	issueSelectorWarnings
Insert an interactive animation into an R markdown document using a customized print method.	knit_print.animint
Backquoted labeller	label_bquote
Generic labeller function for facets	labeller
Labeller functions	labellers label_both label_context label_parsed label_value label_wrap_gen
Change axis labels, legend titles, plot title/subtitle and below-plot caption.	ggtitle labs xlab ylab
Retrieve the last plot to be modified or created.	last_plot
Create a new layer	layer
Convenience functions to set the axis limits.	lims xlim ylim
'colors()' in Luv space.	luv_colours
Convenience function for an interactive bar that might otherwise be created using stat_summary(geom="bar").	make_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.	make_tallrect
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.	make_tallrect_or_widerect
Convenvience function for a showSelected plot label.	make_text
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_widerect
Malaria parasite genome variants	malaria
Create a data frame of map data.	map_data
Define margins.	margin
Calculate mean and standard errors on either side.	mean_se
Merge a list of data frames.	merge_recurse
Midwest demographics.	midwest
K-Nearest-Neighbors model of the mixture example data	mixtureKNN
Montreal bikes	montreal.bikes
Fuel economy data from 1999 and 2008 for 38 popular models of car	mpg
An updated and expanded version of the mammals sleep dataset.	msleep
Environment to store meta data	newEnvironment
Convert a ggplot to a list.	parsePlot
Consistency of segmentation models in simulated Poisson peaks	PeakConsistency
Worldwide pirate attacks from 1978 to 2013	pirates
Adjust position by dodging overlaps to the side.	position_dodge
Stack overlapping objects on top of one another.	position_fill position_stack
Don't adjust position	position_identity
Jitter points to avoid overplotting.	position_jitter
Adjust position by simultaneously dodging and jittering	position_jitterdodge
Nudge points.	position_nudge
Terms of 11 presidents from Eisenhower to Obama.	presidential
print animint	print.animint
Draw plot on current graphics device.	plot.gganimintplot print.gganimintplot
Print a gganimintproto object	print.gganimintproto
Class prior change	prior
Lasso model of the prostate cancer data set	prostateLasso
Convert 'pt' value to 'lines'	pt.to.lines
Quick plot	qplot quickplot
Relative sizing for theme elements	rel
Create an animint output element	renderAnimint
Compute the "resolution" of a data vector.	resolution
Split data set into chunks and save them to separate files.	saveChunks
Alpha scales.	scale_alpha scale_alpha_continuous scale_alpha_discrete
Sequential, diverging and qualitative colour scales from colorbrewer.org	scale_color_brewer scale_color_distiller scale_colour_brewer scale_colour_distiller scale_fill_brewer scale_fill_distiller
Smooth gradient between two colours	scale_color_continuous scale_color_gradient scale_color_gradient2 scale_color_gradientn scale_colour_continuous scale_colour_date scale_colour_datetime scale_colour_gradient scale_colour_gradient2 scale_colour_gradientn scale_fill_continuous scale_fill_date scale_fill_datetime scale_fill_gradient scale_fill_gradient2 scale_fill_gradientn
Sequential grey colour scale.	scale_color_grey scale_colour_grey scale_fill_grey
Qualitative colour scale with evenly spaced hues.	scale_color_discrete scale_color_hue scale_colour_discrete scale_colour_hue scale_fill_discrete scale_fill_hue
Continuous position scales (x & y).	scale_continuous scale_x_continuous scale_x_log10 scale_x_reverse scale_x_sqrt scale_y_continuous scale_y_log10 scale_y_reverse scale_y_sqrt
Position scale, date & date times	scale_date scale_x_date scale_x_datetime scale_y_date scale_y_datetime
Use values without scaling.	scale_alpha_identity scale_color_identity scale_colour_identity scale_fill_identity scale_identity scale_linetype_identity scale_shape_identity scale_size_identity
Scale for line patterns.	scale_linetype scale_linetype_continuous scale_linetype_discrete
Create your own discrete scale.	scale_alpha_manual scale_color_manual scale_colour_manual scale_fill_manual scale_linetype_manual scale_manual scale_shape_manual scale_size_manual
Scale for shapes, aka glyphs.	scale_shape scale_shape_continuous scale_shape_discrete
Scale size (area or radius).	scale_radius scale_size scale_size_area scale_size_continuous scale_size_date scale_size_datetime scale_size_discrete
Scale point sizes using circle area, but specifying the radius in pixels.	scale_size_animint
Discrete position.	scale_x_discrete scale_y_discrete
Vector field of seal movements.	seals
Separate .variable/.value selectors	selectSSandCS
Set plot width and height for all plots	setPlotSizes
Split data.frame into recursive list of data.frame.	split_recursive
Empirical Cumulative Density Function	stat_ecdf
Plot data ellipses.	stat_ellipse
Superimpose a function.	stat_function
Identity statistic.	stat_identity
Calculation for quantile-quantile plot.	geom_qq stat_qq
Bin and summarise in 2d (rectangle & hexagons)	stat_summary2d stat_summary_2d stat_summary_hex
Summarise y values at unique/binned x x.	stat_summary stat_summary_bin
Remove duplicates.	stat_unique
Flip axes in case of coord_flip Switches column names. Eg. xmin to ymin, yntercept to xintercept etc.	switch_axes
Test ROC curves	TestROC
Set theme elements	theme
theme for passing animint specific params	theme_animint
Get, set and update themes.	theme_get theme_replace theme_set theme_update
Convert R colors to RGB hexadecimal color values	toRGB
Function to transform R shapes into d3 shapes...	transform_shape
Translating between qplot and ggplot	translate_qplot_ggplot
Translating between qplot and lattice	translate_qplot_lattice
Housing sales in TX.	txhousing
Update gallery	update_gallery
Modify geom/stat aesthetic defaults for future plots	update_geom_defaults update_stat_defaults
Update axis/legend labels	update_labels
Tornadoes in the United States from 1950 to 2012	UStornadoes
Error rates of supervised learning methods for variant calling	VariantModels
Extract subset for each data.frame in a list of data.frame	varied.chunk
Vervet monkey intestinal microbiome	vervet
Demographics by country from 1960 to 2012	WorldBank
World population by subcontinent	worldPop

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