Animation fails when transient values are converted to strings

[frederikziebell]

This works as expected:

tibble(i=1:3) %>%
  ggplot(aes(x=0, y=0)) +
    geom_text(aes(label=i)) +
    transition_time(i)

however, this fails:

tibble(i=1:3) %>%
  ggplot(aes(x=0, y=0)) +
    geom_text(aes(label=paste0("value: ", i))) +
    transition_time(i)

Is this a bug or how can I use intermediate values and modify them prior to showing them during a transition?

[thomasp85]

This is currently not possible, unfortunately... I'm still muling over how to do this best