animation

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A Gallery of Animations in Statistics and Utilities to Create Animations

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122.6Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Yihui XieFirst published 2007-11-1142 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides functions for animations in statistics, covering topics in probability theory, mathematical statistics, multivariate statistics, non-parametric statistics, sampling survey, linear models, time series, computational statistics, data mining and machine learning. These functions may be helpful in teaching statistics and data analysis. Also provided in this package are a series of functions to save animations to various formats, e.g. Flash, 'GIF', HTML pages, 'PDF' and videos. 'PDF' animations can be inserted into 'Sweave' / 'knitr' easily.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("animation", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("yihui/animation")

Development version from yihui/animation. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-animation

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-animation

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-animation

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.00

0.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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Documentation

READMEYes · 91 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 70%
Return-value docs: 96%
References docs: 80%

Downloads

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CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,389 · ~336/day · ~10.2K/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ yihui/animation

209Stars

58Forks

23Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

774Commits

24Contributors

rr-packageanimationstatisticsstatistical-computingstatistical-graphics

774 commits · Last activity 2025-08-27 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

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2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/yihui/animation on 2026-07-30.

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.14.0

Imports (1)

magick

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

MASSclassCairo fImport rgl zoo testit

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

34direct

5indirect

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Yihui Xie

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Yihui Xie

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (4)

Xinyuan Chu

Contributor · added in 2.8

Christian Mueller

Contributor · added in 2.4

Lijia Yu

Contributor · added in 2.3

Weicheng Zhu

Contributor · added in 2.3

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Package metadata

First published: 2007-11-11
Total releases: 42 / 19 yrs
License: GPL
Minimum R: ≥ 2.14.0
Bundled data: 86 KB / 7 files
Download size: 294 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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