How can I build Shiny applications with Animation in R?

Question

I am trying to build a shiny app to build interactive animations with R. I currently have a function that can build gifs/other output options using the Animation package(htt

Answer 1

I suggest using the googleVis package --> the tool, gvisMotionchart. It's really simple to work with, just make sure your data is numeric or time oriented in some way and also have some character/categorical variable to plot as circles. Best of all is that all animation tools are ALREADY included inside the motion chart.

If you want details how to create this, here is a model example of how to detailed in this thread.

Chart not generated in R shiny when run locally using googleVis

Here's a screenshot of an example of one I've created to visualize chess data.

googlevis example