[R] Time delay function or plot animation

[Gregory Snow]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch 
> [mailto:r-help-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of Ulrike Grömping
> Sent: Monday, December 12, 2005 12:44 PM
> To: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: [R] Time delay function or plot animation
> 
> Dear R-help crowd,
> 
> is it possible to specify a time delay for plotting the 
> points in a curve? I would like to make the plotting process 
> slow enough to show the development of the graph, and 
> therefore I am looking either for the possibility within the 
> plot function to specify a plotting speed or (if that doesn't 
> exist) for a function like "pause" or "wait" that allows to 
> specify a time delay until the next statement is executed. I 
> have searched help and mailing list archives, but I don't 
> seem to look for the right keywords. My current solution is 
> very crude:
> 
> I add the following to an existing plot:
> 
> for (i in 1:steps)
> {
> lines(x[i:(i+1)], y[i:(i+1)])
>    #calculations with the sole purpose of generating a time delay
>    zoeger<-1
>    for (j in 1:85000)
>    {zoeger<-zoeger*j}
> }
> 
> Is there a better way to achieve this?
> 
> Regards, Ulrike
> 
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