tmap (version 2.3-2)

tmap_animation: Create animation

Description

Create a gif or mpeg animation from a tmap plot. The free tool ImageMagick is required.

Usage

tmap_animation(
  tm,
  filename = "animation.gif",
  width = NA,
  height = NA,
  dpi = NA,
  delay = 40,
  loop = TRUE,
  restart.delay = 0
)

Arguments

tm

tmap object. In order to create a series of tmap plots, which will be the frames of the animation, it is important to set nrow and ncol in tm_facets, for otherwise a small multiples plot is generated. Commonly, where one map is shown at a time, both nrow and ncol are set to 1.

filename

filename of the video (should be a .gif or .mpg file)

width

width of the animation file (in pixels)

height

height of the animation file (in pixels)

dpi

dots per inch. Only applicable for raster graphics. By default 300, but this can be set with the option output.dpi in tmap_options.

delay

delay time between images (in 1/100th of a second)

loop

logical that determined whether the animation is looped, or an integer value that determines how many times the animation is looped.

restart.delay

delay time between the loops (in 1/100th of a second)

Examples

# NOT RUN {
data(NLD_prov)

m1 <- tm_shape(NLD_prov) + 
	      tm_polygons("yellow") +
	  tm_facets(along = "name")

tmap_animation(m1, filename="Dutch_provinces.gif", width=800, delay=40)

data(World, metro)

m2 <- tm_shape(World, simplify = 0.5) +
          tm_fill() +
      tm_shape(metro) + 
          tm_bubbles(size = paste0("pop", seq(1970, 2030, by=10)),
          		   col = "purple",
          		   border.col = "black", border.alpha = .5,
          		   scale = 2) +
      tm_facets(free.scales.symbol.size = FALSE, nrow=1,ncol=1) + 
      tm_format("World", scale=.5)

tmap_animation(m2, filename="World population.gif", width=1200, delay=100)
# }