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Create animated statistical graphics and export them to GIF, video and HTML

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Contribution-driven maintenance on a package whose last structural change was magick support.

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◆Current state
animation renders statistical and mathematical animations from R to GIF, HTML, video and LaTeX. The most recent release adds a single contributed demo; the substantive work — magick-based conversion and resolution control — landed in the 2.6/2.7 pair. Several entries carry near-identical import timestamps, so the visible dates compress the real release history.
◆Where it's heading
The package has settled into contribution-driven maintenance: outside users file demos and device fixes, and the maintainer merges them. The direction set in 2.6 — dropping the shell-out to an external ImageMagick install in favour of the magick R package — was the last structural change. Nothing in the entries suggests a redesign is underway.
◆Prediction
Expect the next release to be another accepted contribution — a demo or a device-specific fix — rather than a change to how animations are produced.

◆Recent moves

  1. 11mo ago

    New estimate_pi demo added

    A single contributed demo, estimate_pi. It extends the teaching-demo catalogue that is the package's main draw without touching how animations are produced.

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  2. 4y ago

    ani.res now honored by saveHTML(), saveVideo() and any device

    Three device-handling fixes, all externally contributed: saveGIF() with a function-valued ani.dev, and ani.res respected by saveHTML(), saveVideo() and arbitrary graphical devices. This is the follow-through on the resolution control introduced in 2.6.

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  3. 4y ago

    GIF conversion via the magick package; new ani.res option

    The last structural change in the visible history: GIF conversion can run through the magick R package instead of shelling out to an external ImageMagick install, plus a new ani.res resolution option and a kmeans.ani convergence fix.

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  4. 4y ago

    Examples stripped from the package to pass CRAN checks

    All examples were removed from the package to get past R CMD check on CRAN, with the originals left on GitHub. A packaging concession, not a functional change.

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