# thomasp85/gganimate

A Grammar of Animated Graphics

Repository: https://github.com/thomasp85/gganimate
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/gganimate
Homepage: https://gganimate.com
Language: R
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: rstats, ggplot2, animation, transition, data-visualization, ggplot-extension
Last push: 2025-09-04T12:14:57+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 50/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 40, release rhythm 34, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3866, "days_push": 363, "days_rel": 363, "gap_med": 73, "n_releases_24m": 2}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1983, forks 314 (observed 2026-08-28T04:06:01.923929+00:00)

## What it is
gganimate is an R package that extends ggplot2's grammar of graphics to describe animated graphics. It adds grammar classes like transition_*(), view_*(), shadow_*(), enter_*/exit_*, and ease_aes() to control how plots change over time.

## Use cases
- animate ggplot2 charts over time
- create animated data visualizations in R
- transition between plot states in a ggplot
- add easing and enter/exit effects to animated plots
- export animated GIFs of statistical graphics
- visualize how data evolves across time steps

## When to choose
- you already use ggplot2 and want to animate plots declaratively
- you need grammar-based control over transitions, easing, and shadows
- you want a mature CRAN package for animated graphics in R

## When to avoid
- you need interactive or real-time animations rather than rendered output
- you work outside R or prefer non-ggplot2 plotting systems
- you need fine-grained frame-by-frame animation control

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: stable
- function: data-visualization, animation
- domain: data-visualization, data-science
- platform: python
- tags: rstats, ggplot2, ggplot-extension, animated-graphics, grammar-of-graphics

## Member repositories
- thomasp85/gganimate (main) score 50

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:01.923929+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:03:31.373232+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/thomasp85/gganimate (fetched 2026-08-28T04:06:01.923929+00:00, sha 85b424d5c4ac)
  - homepage: https://gganimate.com (fetched 2026-08-29T10:43:12.688930+00:00, sha 94f5e0a91def)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.