R Observatory: Metrics for animate version 0.3.9.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

animate

0.3.9.4Package record

A Web-Based Graphics Device for Animated Visualisations

0packages depend

3.8Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

0/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Chun Fung KwokCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Implements a web-based graphics device for animated visualisations. Modelled on the 'base' syntax, it extends the 'base' graphics functions to support frame-by-frame animation and keyframes animation. The target use cases are real-time animated visualisations, including agent-based models, dynamical systems, and animated diagrams. The generated visualisations can be deployed as GIF images / MP4 videos, as 'Shiny' apps (with interactivity) or as HTML documents through embedding into R Markdown documents.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("animate", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("kcf-jackson/animate")

Development version from kcf-jackson/animate. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-animate

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-animate

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-animate

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13NOTE

Check messages

NOTEDESCRIPTION meta-informationr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64

Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    ‘app.R’

r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

Missing dependency on R >= 4.1.0 because package code uses the pipe
  |> or function shorthand \(...) syntax added in R 4.1.0.
  File(s) using such syntax:
    'app.R'

NOTERd filesr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64, r-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64, r-oldrel-windows-x86_64, r-patched-linux-x86_64, r-release-linux-x86_64, r-release-macos-arm64, r-release-macos-x86_64, r-release-windows-x86_64

checkRd: (-1) animate.Rd:625-627: Lost braces
   625 | group = function(...) {
       |                       ^

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE13 NOTE2026-09-08
ERROR12 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
NOTE13 NOTE2026-06-23
ERROR12 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-20
NOTE14 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.9.4

READMENoVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 13
Examples that run: 25%2 run in a plain check · 6 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 0%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (2)

An introduction to 'animate' HTML
Q & A HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,929 · ~10/day · ~319/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

40430 days

1.1K90 days

3.8K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on98 r2u24 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

kcf-jackson/animate ↗Account: kcf-jackson

33Stars

3Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

147Commits

2Commit identities

animationd3jsjavascriptrr-package

147 commits · Last activity 2024-04-24 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.3.9.8, ahead of CRAN 0.3.9.4 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 142
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-08-29 · 332026-07-07 · 33

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

3 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/kcf-jackson/animate on 2026-10-18.

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2023-02-03

pkgdown site last built 2023-01-06, before release 0.3.9.4 (2023-02-03)

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing animate adds 17 packages (10 with compiled code, 11 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: promises 3.1 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB, httpuv 1.8 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (6)

R6 httpuv base64enc jsonlite glue R.utils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

rmarkdown knitr shiny htmltools pryr V8 servr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Chun Fung Kwok

Author, Maintainer since 0.3.9.4 (2023)

Davis McCarthy

Contributor

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.3.9.4Latest
record
2023-02-03 · current release
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2023-02-03
Total releases: 1 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 1.0 MB

Appears in task views

Dynamic Visualizations and Interactive Graphics

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("animate")

Format

Kwok, C. F., & McCarthy, D. (2023). animate: A Web-Based Graphics Device for Animated Visualisations (Version 0.3.9.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.animate

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for animate version 0.3.9.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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