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This is a short post to illustrate some cool features of animint: tooltips and links. Last weekend, I went for a hike outside Bozeman, MT. This hike starts at the Northern end of the Bridger mountains and runs 20 miles to the Southern end. I took some pictures and recorded the distance traveled each hour so we can use gglot2 and animint to visualize the hike.

Bob Rudis published a post last week using ggplot2 to reproduce an interactive visualization from Poynter. And he conveniently put all his code into a gist so that we can reproduce it. See here for why I'm using RCurl.

Animint is an R package designed to create animated and interactive web graphics. It takes a simple ggplot like this one ...

Animint is an R package which allows users to make animated and interactive web graphics from ggplot2 plots. To get started, follow the installation instructions in the README.

Animint is an R package that turns ggplot2 graphics into animated and interactive web graphics. It was first published on GitHub in 2013 and is still under development. This blog is made for animint developers and users to share their work with the package.