Animating Covid-19 progress and variants over time

Data Visualization

Using R and GGanimate

I love the GGanimate function of GGPlot which allows you to add a fourth dimension to whatever plot you are making. Hence, this is not the first post I am attributing to building GIFs using R. But, when something is fun, you tend to repeat it. So let's make this short and sweet.

rm(list = ls())
library(tidyverse)
library(readr)
library(ggthemes)
library(lubridate)
library(zoo)
library(gganimate)
library(cowplot)

I downloaded the Covid data from OWID and some data from …

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