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# Motion charts in R
- URL: https://balaustine.mymagic.page/motion-charts-in-r/
- Published: 2014-07-07T16:21:30.000Z
- Updated: 2014-07-07T16:21:30.000Z
- Author: VM
- Tags: Uncategorized, carbon-dioxide emissions, Google Visualization, motion charts, R, #Migrated-1787483357778, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-23 11:09

Formatting a motion chart in Google Visualization is as hellish as it's surprising how simple R makes it. One more reason to learn this underrated language. To create [this motion chart](http://data.isnerd.co/2014/07/co2-emissions-of-5-largest-economies-by.html?ref=balaustine.mymagic.page), I downloaded the data from [here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10EQqus2eUnVoNNt1s3L4rxf8LQmvLuafoIKhSxr5Jts/edit?usp=sharing&ref=balaustine.mymagic.page) (as CSV) and keyed in the following lines in RStudio:

```r
emissions <- read.csv("--path to file--/emissions.csv", header=T)
install.packages("googleVis")
library("googleVis)
emissions_Motion = gvisMotionChart(emissions, idvar="Country", timevar="Year")
plot(emissions_Motion)
cat(emissions_Motion$html$chart, file="emissions.html")
```

That's it.