Code to Animate the Drive from CO to Nicaragua

Code used to create an animated SVG of our drive from Colorado to Nicaragua. Steps are explained in a 2-part blog post:

• Part 1 - Creating the Map
• Part 2 - Animating the SVG

Code Description

• The code for Part 1 is siloed in createInitialSVG.R
• The code for Part 2 is in modifySVGForAnimation.R and svgModFunctions.R
• animateNicaDrive.R is a script tying everything together
• makingTheMap.Rmd is the Part 1 post

Milestones

• 2016-01-05: Initital load of data and beginning of SVG of drive
• 2016-01-22: Code to create the animated svg complete
• 2016-01-25: Code clean up and initial writing complete.