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animint2 (version 2025.1.21)

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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2025.1.21

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GPL-3

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Toby Hocking

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January 21st, 2025

Functions in animint2 (2025.1.21)

aes

Define aesthetic mappings.
aes_all

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

Add a showSelected aesthetic if legend is specified
addSSandCSasAesthetics

Add the showSelected/clickSelects params to the aesthetics mapping
add_theme

Modify properties of an element in a theme object
aes_

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

FluView
WorldBank

Demographics by country from 1960 to 2012
UStornadoes

Tornadoes in the United States from 1950 to 2012
absoluteGrob

Absolute grob
aes_auto

Automatic aesthetic mapping
aes_linetype_size_shape

Differentiation related aesthetics: linetype, size, shape
aes_position

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

Shiny ui output function
annotate

Create an annotation layer.
animint

Create an animint
animint2-gganimintproto

Base gganimintproto classes for ggplot2
animint2dir

Compile and render an animint in a local directory.
animint2pages

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

Colour related aesthetics: colour, fill and alpha
annotation_map

Annotation: maps.
as.list.gganimintproto

Convert a gganimintproto object to a list
as_labeller

Coerce to labeller function
benchplot

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

Create a complete ggplot appropriate to a particular data type
checkPlotForAnimintExtensions

Performs error checking on the plot for animint extensions
annotation_custom

Annotation: Custom grob.
continuous_scale

Continuous scale constructor.
annotation_logticks

Annotation: log tick marks
coord_cartesian

Cartesian coordinates.
borders

Create a layer of map borders.
breakpoints

The breakpointError of simulated signals
checkAnimationTimeVar

Check animation variable for errors
calc_element

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

Cut up numeric vector into useful groups.
annotation_raster

Annotation: High-performance rectangular tiling.
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_trans

Transformed cartesian coordinate system.
coord_polar

Polar coordinates.
coord_fixed

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

Check plot.list for errors
coord_flip

Flipped cartesian coordinates.
coord_munch

Munch coordinates data
expand_limits

Expand the plot limits with data.
coord_map

Map projections.
element_blank

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

US economic time series.
facet

Facet specification.
checkForSSandCSasAesthetics

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

Theme element: rectangle.
checkExtraParams

Check extra_params argument for duplicates, non-named list
draw_key

Key drawing functions
fortify.sp

Fortify method for classes from the sp package.
facet_wrap

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

Discrete scale constructor.
format.gganimintproto

Format a gganimintproto object
facet_grid

Lay out panels in a grid.
facet_null

Facet specification: a single panel.
element_line

Theme element: line.
geom_abline

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

Generate grid grob from theme element
generation.loci

Evolution simulation
diamonds

Prices of 50,000 round cut diamonds
element_text

Theme element: text.
fortify.lm

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

Fortify a model with data.
faithfuld

2d density estimate of Old Faithful data
geom_bar

Bars, rectangles with bases on x-axis
fortify.map

Fortify method for map objects.
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.
geom_bin2d

Add heatmap of 2d bin counts.
geom_errorbarh

Horizontal error bars
geom_hex

Hexagon binning.
geom_density_2d

Contours from a 2d density estimate.
geom_dotplot

Dot plot
geom_segment

Line segments and curves.
geom_jitter

Points, jittered to reduce overplotting.
geom_freqpoly

Histograms and frequency polygons.
geom_density

Display a smooth density estimate.
geom_point

Points, as for a scatterplot
geom_path

Connect observations.
geom_crossbar

Vertical intervals: lines, crossbars & errorbars.
geom_count

Count the number of observations at each location.
geom_polygon

Polygon, a filled path.
geom_rug

Marginal rug plots.
geom_ribbon

Ribbons and area plots.
geom_tallrect

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

Textual annotations.
geom_smooth

Add a smoothed conditional mean.
geom_map

Polygons from a reference map.
getLayerName

Gives a unique name to each layer in saveLayer
geom_spoke

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

Get all parameters for a layer
geom_raster

Draw rectangles.
gganimintproto

Create a new gganimintproto object
geom_widerect

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

Save the common columns for each tsv to one chunk
ggplot

Create a new ggplot plot.
gg_dep

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

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

Generate a ggplot2 plot grob.
ggplot_build

Build ggplot for rendering.
getTextSize

Function to process text size with different types of unit
getUniqueAxisLabels

Get unique axis labels for the plot
geom_violin

Violin plot.
guides

Set guides for each scale.
guide_colourbar

Continuous colour bar guide.
intreg

Interval regression
is.Coord

Is this object a coordinate system?
ggsave

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

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

Reports whether x is a rel object
is.facet

Is this object a facetting specification?
ggplot_gtable

Build a plot with all the usual bits and pieces.
is.ggplot

Reports whether x is a ggplot object
is.rgb

Check if character is an RGB hexadecimal color value
labellers

Labeller functions
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
labs

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

Reports whether x is a theme object
knit_print.animint

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

Legend guide.
layer

Create a new layer
last_plot

Retrieve the last plot to be modified or created.
label_bquote

Backquoted labeller
msleep

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

Generic labeller function for facets
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.
is.gganimintproto

Is an object a gganimintproto object?
lims

Convenience functions to set the axis limits.
map_data

Create a data frame of map data.
luv_colours

colors() in Luv space.
make_text

Convenvience function for a showSelected plot label.
getLegend

Function to get legend information for each scale
newEnvironment

Environment to store meta data
parsePlot

Convert a ggplot to a list.
print.animint

print animint
limits

Generate correct scale type for specified limits
make_bar

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

Relative sizing for theme elements
remove_missing

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

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

Midwest demographics.
mpg

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

Alpha scales.
position_dodge

Adjust position by dodging overlaps to the side.
position_jitterdodge

Adjust position by simultaneously dodging and jittering
margin

Define margins.
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.
scale_linetype

Scale for line patterns.
position_nudge

Nudge points.
selectSSandCS

Separate .variable/.value selectors
print.gganimintplot

Draw plot on current graphics device.
scale_manual

Create your own discrete scale.
getLegendList

Function to get legend information from ggplot
reexports

Objects exported from other packages
qplot

Quick plot
setPlotSizes

Set plot width and height for all plots
ggtheme

ggplot2 themes
scale_colour_brewer

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

Smooth gradient between two colours
scale_colour_grey

Sequential grey colour scale.
scale_date

Position scale, date & date times
scale_x_discrete

Discrete position.
scale_shape

Scale for shapes, aka glyphs.
scale_size

Scale size (area or radius).
theme_animint

theme for passing animint specific params
scale_continuous

Continuous position scales (x & y).
renderAnimint

Create an animint output element
theme

Set theme elements
stat_ecdf

Empirical Cumulative Density Function
position_fill

Stack overlapping objects on top of one another.
presidential

Terms of 11 presidents from Eisenhower to Obama.
toRGB

Convert R colors to RGB hexadecimal color values
resolution

Compute the "resolution" of a data vector.
mean_se

Calculate mean and standard errors on either side.
theme_update

Get, set and update themes.
should_stop

Used in examples to illustrate when errors should occur.
scale_colour_hue

Qualitative colour scale with evenly spaced hues.
split_recursive

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

Plot data ellipses.
merge_recurse

Merge a list of data frames.
graphical-units

Graphical units
scale_identity

Use values without scaling.
position_identity

Don't adjust position
stat_identity

Identity statistic.
stat_function

Superimpose a function.
switch_axes

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

Modify geom/stat aesthetic defaults for future plots
summary.gganimintplot

Displays a useful description of a ggplot object
train_position

Train position scales with data
update_gallery

Update gallery
position_jitter

Jitter points to avoid overplotting.
stat_qq

Calculation for quantile-quantile plot.
stat_summary_2d

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

Translating between qplot and lattice
print.gganimintproto

Print a gganimintproto object
pt.to.lines

Convert pt value to lines
stat_unique

Remove duplicates.
txhousing

Housing sales in TX.
stat_summary_bin

Summarise y values at unique/binned x x.
waiver

A waiver object.
zeroGrob

The zero grob draws nothing and has zero size.
transform_position

Convenience function to transform all position variables.
update_labels

Update axis/legend labels
varied.chunk

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

World population by subcontinent
transform_shape

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

Vector field of seal movements.
scale_size_animint

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

Translating between qplot and ggplot