patchwork VS gganimate

patchwork and ggrepel

3 waffle charts, patched together with patchwork https://patchwork.data-imaginist.com/

Here, I developed patchworklib that allows users to arrange subplots dynamically and determine the best layout from the multiple layouts. Patchworklib is inspired by patchwork library for R ggplot2, so it enables designing subplot layouts with only / and | operators.

So, I developed patchworklib inspired by the patchwork library for R. With patchwroklib, after creating individual plots, you can quickly design multiple layouts combining them and select the best one among them.

There https://patchwork.data-imaginist.com

The author of patchwork offers some justification for the package here compared to other R packages that facilitate the plotting of ggplot objects (e.g., gridExtra, cowplot). The syntax appears to be simpler than creating matrices to specify layouts as in gridExtra, but the examples given on the GitHub page don't really demonstrate how the package deals with the more complex layouts that are possible in gridExtra.

Try the patchwork package which lets you glue graphs together. Amazing stuff!

The gganimate package is great for this! https://github.com/thomasp85/gganimate

This was created using R's {gganimate} package. Huge help from this stackoverflow post showing how to interpolate the values between frames to add more flow to the animation. As well, this post about emoji's that provides a `mean_colour` function that made it easier to match bar colours to the coin images.