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 heaving borrowed (You can say, inspired and copied) from the answers of this Stack Overflow Question Animated sorted bar chart with bars overtaking each other
gdp_data_cleanup.R- Cleaning up the data downloaded from WorldBank Data Siteanimated_bar_plot_in_R.R- Building Animated Bar Plots
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
The origin input data (csv) has been downloaded from databank.worldbank.org