R
.gganimate
package
plotly
can be another useful tool for animating graphs, as described in this course.
gganimate
The gganimate library is a ggplot2 extension that allows to easily create animation from your data. Basically it allows to provide a frame (the step in the animation) as another aesthetic.
.png
images with Image Magick
Image Magick is a software that allows to work with images in command lines. You can create and output a set of images doing a loop in R
. Then, give all these images to Image magick and it will convert them into a .gif
format.