moveEZ: An R Package for Animated Biplots
Raeesa Ganey, Johan\'e Nienkemper-Swanepoel

TL;DR
moveEZ is an R package that creates animated PCA biplots to visualize how multivariate data structures change across ordered categories, supporting high-dimensional data and various animation frameworks.
Contribution
It extends existing tools by providing three animation methods, including dynamic frames with Procrustes alignment, for clearer visualization of multivariate evolution.
Findings
Supports high-dimensional datasets with grouped structures.
Enables publication-quality animations with gganimate.
Domain-agnostic, applicable across various fields.
Abstract
The moveEZ (pronounced move easy) R package provides tools for constructing animated PCA biplots that reveal how multivariate structure evolves across the ordered levels of a categorical variable. Built as an extension to the biplotEZ package, moveEZ offers three animation frameworks of increasing methodological complexity: a fixed variable frame, in which variable vectors remain constant and only sample positions are animated; and two dynamic frames, in which both sample positions and variable vectors are recomputed and animated at each level. The dynamic frames support Procrustes alignment and reflection to ensure visual continuity across levels, and are compatible with high-dimensional datasets including grouped structures. The package integrates with gganimate to produce high-quality animations suitable for publications and presentations, and supports both animated and static…
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