# barRacer

**Repository Path**: tidyfriday/barRacer

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: barRacer
- **Description**: No description available
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2021-03-06
- **Last Updated**: 2024-06-03

## Categories & Tags

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## README


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The goal of barRacer is to provide a simple function to generate bar
chart race animations using `ggplot2` and `gganimate`.

## Installation

This package is not yet on CRAN.

You can install the development version of barRacer from
[GitHub](https://github.com/) with:

``` r
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("jl5000/barRacer")
```

## Example

This simple example uses the `gapminder` dataset:

``` r
#install.packages("gapminder")
library(barRacer)

bar_chart_race(gapminder::gapminder, country, pop, year, title = "Population over time")
```

<img src="man/figures/README-example-1.gif" width="100%" />

## Acknowledgements

  - Hadley Wickham for the [`tidyverse`](https://www.tidyverse.org/)
    (including `ggplot2`);
  - Thomas Lin Pedersen for
    [`gganimate`](https://gganimate.com/index.html);
  - Ray Larabie ([Typodermic Fonts](http://typodermicfonts.com)) for the
    *Hemi Head* font used in the hex logo.

## Feedback

If you have any issues or feedback, please do raise a Github Issue or
create a Pull Request.