gganimate Cheat Sheet by Pranav V A

gganimate builds on ggplot2’s grammar of
graphics to provide functions for animation. You
add them to plots created with ggplot() the
same way you add a geom

Main Function Groups
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transi­tio­n_*()

: What variable controls
change and how?
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view_*()

: Should the axes change with the
data?
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enter/­exi­t_*()

: How does new data get
added the plot? How does old data leave?
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shadow_*()

: Should previous data be
“remem­bered” and shown with current data?
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ease_aes()

: How do you want to handle the
pace of change between transition values?

librar­y(t­idy­verse)

librar­y(g­gan­imate)

a <- ggplot­(di­amonds, aes(carat, price)) + geom_p­oint()

b <- ggplot­(tx­hou­sing, aes(month, sales)) + geom_col()

c <- ggplot­(ec­ono­mics, aes(date, psavert)) + geom_l­ine()

animat­ion­_to­_save <- anim_a + exit_s­hrink()

anim_s­ave­("fi­rst­_sa­ved­_an­ima­tio­n.g­if", animation = animat­ion­_to­_save)

Since the animation argument uses your last rendered animation by default, this also works:

anim_a + exit_s­hri­nk()`

anim_s­ave­("se­con­d_s­ave­d_a­nim­ati­on.g­if­")

anim_s­ave()

uses gifski to render the animation as a .gif file by default. You can use the renderer
argument for other output types including video files (av_re­nde­rer() or ffmeg_­ren­der­er()) or
sprite­sheets (sprit­e_r­end­ere­r()):
# requires you to have the av package installed

anim_s­ave­("th­ird­_sa­ved­_an­ima­tio­n.m­p4",­ren­derer = av_ren­der­er())