animated_bar_charts_in_R
The goal of this project is explain how to build Animated Bar Charts in R (which is kinda trending on Social Media these days)
Disclaimer: The code used here is heavily borrowed (You can say, inspired and copied) from the answers of this Stack Overflow Question Animated sorted bar chart with bars overtaking each other
Potential Errors
If you faced this error Error: The gifski package is required to use gifski_renderer
Please install gifski and png package and try again.
Final Output (GIF):
Codes
gdp_data_cleanup.R- Cleaning up the data downloaded from WorldBank Data Siteanimated_bar_plot_in_R.R- Building Animated Bar Plots
Reproducibility
Packages used:
gganimatetidyverse
Session Info:
> sessionInfo()
R version 3.5.1 (2018-07-02)
Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 (64-bit)
Running under: macOS 10.14.3
Matrix products: default
BLAS: /System/Library/Frameworks/Accelerate.framework/Versions/A/Frameworks/vecLib.framework/Versions/A/libBLAS.dylib
LAPACK: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/3.5/Resources/lib/libRlapack.dylib
locale:
[1] en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8/C/en_US.UTF-8/en_US.UTF-8
attached base packages:
[1] stats graphics grDevices utils datasets methods base
other attached packages:
[1] gganimate_1.0.1 forcats_0.3.0 stringr_1.4.0 dplyr_0.8.0.1
[5] purrr_0.3.2 readr_1.3.1 tidyr_0.8.3 tibble_2.0.1
[9] ggplot2_3.1.0 tidyverse_1.2.1
loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] Rcpp_1.0.1 cellranger_1.1.0 pillar_1.3.1
[4] compiler_3.5.1 plyr_1.8.4 prettyunits_1.0.2
[7] tools_3.5.1 progress_1.2.0 digest_0.6.18
[10] jsonlite_1.6 lubridate_1.7.4 gtable_0.2.0
[13] nlme_3.1-137 lattice_0.20-38 png_0.1-7
[16] pkgconfig_2.0.2 rlang_0.3.2.9000 cli_1.0.1
[19] rstudioapi_0.9.0 haven_1.1.2 withr_2.1.2
[22] xml2_1.2.0 httr_1.4.0 hms_0.4.2
[25] grid_3.5.1 tidyselect_0.2.5 glue_1.3.0
[28] R6_2.4.0 gifski_0.8.6 readxl_1.1.0
[31] modelr_0.1.2 tweenr_1.0.1 farver_1.0
[34] magrittr_1.5 scales_1.0.0 backports_1.1.2
[37] rvest_0.3.2 assertthat_0.2.0 colorspace_1.3-2
[40] labeling_0.3 stringi_1.3.1 lazyeval_0.2.1
[43] munsell_0.5.0 broom_0.5.0 crayon_1.3.4
Data Source:
The origin input data (csv) has been downloaded from databank.worldbank.org