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title: "ggplot2 extensions: gganimate"

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### gganimate

<https://github.com/dgrtwo/gganimate>

gganimate wraps the animation package to create animated ggplot2 plots.

```{r eval = FALSE}

knitr::opts_chunk$set(message = FALSE, warning = FALSE, fig.show = "animate")

# Example from https://github.com/dgrtwo/gganimate

library(ggplot2)

library(gganimate)

# For example, suppose we wanted to create an animation similar to the Gapminder

# world animation, using Jenny Bryan's gapminder package for the data.

library(gapminder)

theme_set(theme_bw())

p <- ggplot(gapminder, aes(gdpPercap, lifeExp, size = pop, color = continent, frame = year)) +

geom_point() +

scale_x_log10()

# Notice we added frame = year and saved the plot as p.

# We then display it as an animation with the gg_animate function:

gg_animate(p)

```