[R] Greyed text in the background of a plot

[Yihui Xie]

Hi Agus,

Yes you are absolutely right about the awkward jumps in the animations
and this has also been my big problem for a long time. To solve this
problem, I think I need a third-party software, as I don't know any
solutions merely using R. Maybe the "swfc" utility in the SWF Tools or
the Processing language can be possible solutions. I'll try them when
I have enough time.

As for the function Rosling.bubbles(), you have to wait until the
version 1.0-2 is published on CRAN. (I've submitted the new version
this morning)

Sorry it seems I have been discussing a different topic under this thread...

Yihui

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 8:05 PM, Agustin Lobo <Agustin.Lobo at ija.csic.es> wrote:
> Yes, it's easy but you get a significant "jump" between a time
> step and the next one, which makes the animation unpleasant and difficult to
> follow. I think that this problem is because
> of the use of plot(), which redraws everything, and that
> there is no way around within R (is it?).
>
> I also understand that
> these "jumps" are avoided in your package by creating
> the animated gif and html pages. Actually your
> animation with the word "Animation" in
> your page
> http://animation.yihui.name/animation:start#generate_an_animation_sequence
> is much "softer" that what you get by running the code within R.
>
> Regarding what you have in
> http://animation.yihui.name/da:ts:hans_rosling_s_talk
>
> I'm missing the function Rosling.bubbles(), so cannot
> actually try it.
>
> And congratulations, great site and package.
>
> Agus
>
>


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