Start the generation of an HTML animation page

Description

This function copies JavaScript file ‘FUN.js’ and CSS file ‘ANI.css’ to the same directory as the HTML animation page, create a directory ‘images’ and open a graphics device in this directory (the device is specified as ani.dev in ani.options). The prompt of the current R session is modified (by default ANI> ).

Usage

ani.start(...)

Arguments

Value

None (invisible NULL).

Note

After calling ani.start, either animation functions in this package or R script of your own can be used to generate & save animated pictures using proper graphics devices (specified as ani.dev in ani.options), then watch your animation by ani.stop().

Note that existing image files in the directory ani.options('imgdir') will be removed.

Author(s)

Yihui Xie <http://yihui.name>

See Also

saveHTML (the recommended way to create HTML pages), ani.options, ani.stop

Examples

## save the animation in HTML pages and auto-browse it
oopt = ani.options(nmax = 20, ani.width = 600, ani.height = 500, interval = 0.2)
ani.start()
boot.iid()
ani.stop()
ani.options(oopt)