Animation: An R package for creating animations and demonstrating statistical methods

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 1-27

  Xie, Yihui ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animation; R; Reproducible research; Simulation; Statistical demonstration; Web application

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876725093     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v053.i01     Document Type: Article

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