Animate Coral Seed Particle Tracks — animate

This function animates particle tracks over time using tmap, creating a .gif file.

Usage

animate_coralseed(input, outputfolder, n = 100)

Arguments

input: An sf object containing particle tracks. Must include a 'time' and 'id' column.
filename: Path to the output gif file.
width: Width of the output gif in pixels. Default is 1200.
height: Height of the output gif in pixels. Default is 600.
delay: Delay between frames in the gif, in milliseconds. Default is 10.
loop: Logical; should the gif loop? Default is FALSE.

Value

Saves a gif to the specified filename and returns the animation object.

Details

Packages required: tmap, sf, dplyr

Examples

# library(sf)
# library(dplyr)
# library(tmap)
#
# sf::sf_use_s2(FALSE)
# lizard_particles_raw <- sf::st_read("/path/to/file.json", quiet=TRUE) |>
#   dplyr::filter(id < 100) |>
#   sf::st_zm(drop = TRUE, what = "ZM")
#
# animate_coralseed(
#   input = lizard_particles_raw,
#   filename = "/path/to/save/test.gif"
# )