You won’t believe how easy it is to create animated bar charts in the R programming language to show rankings over time. Racing bar charts can be a useful way to visualize comparative data over time.

Learn how to make everything from basic line graphs to racing bar charts — all interactive and easily animated — with the echarts4r R package. While I’m mostly settled on ggplot2 for static plots, I’m ...

This article is adapted from an edition of our Off the Charts newsletter originally published in October 2021. Off the Charts is a weekly, subscriber-only guide to The Economist’s award-winning data ...