R Observatory: Metrics for animint2 version 2025.10.17

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

animint2

2025.10.17Package record

Animated Interactive Grammar of Graphics

0packages depend

7.5Kdownloads / year

62.9%test coverage

8/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Toby HockingCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Functions are provided for defining animated, interactive data visualizations in R code, and rendering on a web page. The 2018 Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics paper, doi:10.1080/10618600.2018.1513367 describes the concepts implemented.

Changes in 2025.10.17

getCommonChunk() uses default group=1 (previously 1:N which was slower).
getCommonChunk() works for geom_point() and other geoms which do not use aes(group) for display (previously common data was only returned for geoms path/polygon/ribbon).
getCommonChunk() returns common data if there is only one common variable, as long as it has at least one group with more than one row (previously at least two common variables were required).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("animint2", 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("animint/animint2")

Development version from animint/animint2. 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-animint2

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-animint2

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-animint2

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

5NOTE8OK

Check messages

NOTER code for possible problemsr-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

Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  animint2/tests/testthat/test-compiler-annotate.r (.Names: 1)
'.Names' should be changed to 'names'.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 8.7 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE8 OK, 5 NOTE2026-10-17
WARNING7 OK, 5 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-10-01
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK12 OK2026-04-25
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2025.10.17

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2025.10.17Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 214 (28 internal)
Examples that run: 86%96 run in a plain check · 12 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 3 never run · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 68%
Documented parameters: 86%
Return-value docs: 15%
Help pages citing references: 2%

How these are measured

Downloads

7.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #6,127 · ~20/day · ~623/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

55130 days

1.3K90 days

7.5K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on277 r2u28 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

animint/animint2 ↗Organization: animint

76Stars

44Forks

28Open issues

16Open PRs

0Releases

1,541Commits

17Commit identities

1,541 commits · Last activity 2026-10-13 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2026.9.28, ahead of CRAN 2025.10.17 (checked 2026-10-11)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 57%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 86
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 40

Stars over time

2025-09-07 · 702026-08-10 · 76

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/animint/animint2 on 2026-10-11.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Governance and community (1)

Contributing guide

Docs source (2)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-10-30

pkgdown site last built 2024-10-30, before release 2025.10.17 (2025-10-22)

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting

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Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

32 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing animint2 adds 34 packages (20 with compiled code, 33 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, data.table 5.7 MB, promises 3.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (13)

servr digest RJSONIOgridgtableMASSplyr reshape2 scalesstatsknitr (>= 1.5.33)data.tablemethods

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (27)

gert gitcreds gh sp gistr shiny covr RColorBrewer htmltools rmarkdown testthat XML devtools httr maps ggplot2movies hexbin Hmisclatticemapprojmgcvnlmerpartsvglite ggplot2 chromote magick

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (20)

Toby Hocking

Author, Maintainer since 2019.7.3 (2019)

Original animint code

Suhaani Agarwal

Author · added in 2025.9.16

Animint2 GSoC 2025

Jun Cai

Author · added in 2020.9.18

Animint GSOC 2015

Winston Chang

Author

Forked ggplot2 code

Jocelyne Chen

Author · added in 2023.11.21

Animint2 GSoC 2023

Siddhesh Deodhar

Author · added in 2024.11.2

Animint2 GSoC 2024

Yufan Fei

Author · added in 2023.3.14

Animint2 GSoC 2022

Kevin Ferris

Author

Animint GSOC 2015

Faizan Khan

Author

Animint GSOC 2016-2017

Vivek Kumar

Author

Animint GSOC 2018

Nicholas Lewin-Koh

Author

hexGrob

Martin Maechler

Author

hexGrob

Randall Prium

Author

cut_width

Carson Sievert

Author

Animint GSOC 2014

Himanshu Singh

Author · added in 2020.9.18

Animint2 GSoC 2020

Susan VanderPlas

Author

Animint GSOC 2013

Hadley Wickham

Author

Forked ggplot2 code

Gaurav Chaudhary

Contributor · added in 2025.10.17

Remove unused css.file parameter

Biplab Sutradhar

Contributor · added in 2024.11.2

Updated animist.js to use class for source links

RStudio

Copyright holder

Forked ggplot2 code

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Tony Tsai

no longer listed · 2019.7.3

Releases (13)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2025.10.17Latest
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2025-10-22 · current release · diff ↗
2025.9.16
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2025-09-22 · diff ↗ ·
removed 4 exports
GeomRaster, GeomRasterAnn, annotation_raster, geom_raster

added 2 exports
GeomLabelAligned, geom_label_aligned
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2025.1.28
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2025.1.21
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
2024.1.24
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2024-01-24 · diff ↗
2023.11.21
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2023-11-22 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
animint2gist

added 2 exports
animint2pages, update_gallery
2023.6.11
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2023-06-14 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2023.3.14
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2023-03-14 · diff ↗
2022.9.14
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2022-09-16 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2022-01-26

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2022.1.25
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2022-01-26 · diff ↗ ·
removed 9 exports
GeomBoxplot, GeomQuantile, StatBoxplot, StatQuantile, draw_key_boxplot, geom_boxplot, geom_quantile, stat_boxplot, stat_quantile
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2021-11-30
check problems were not corrected in time
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2020-10-20
2020.9.18
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2020-10-20 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
knit_print.animint, saveLayer

added 2 exports
GeomBin2d, GeomFreqpoly
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2020-03-29
requested by the maintainer
2019.7.3
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2019-07-18
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26

Package metadata

First published: 2019-07-18
Total releases: 13 / 7 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 1.9 MB / 18 files
Download size: 3.9 MB

Appears in task views

Dynamic Visualizations and Interactive Graphics

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Hocking, T., RStudio, Agarwal, S., Cai, J., Chang, W., Chaudhary, G., Chen, J., Deodhar, S., Fei, Y., Ferris, K., Khan, F., Kumar, V., Lewin-Koh, N., Maechler, M., Prium, R., Sievert, C., Singh, H., Sutradhar, B., VanderPlas, S., & Wickham, H. (2025). animint2: Animated Interactive Grammar of Graphics (Version 2025.10.17) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.animint2

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for animint2 version 2025.10.17 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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