animint2 (GSoC)

Migrating the animint2 R package from PhantomJS to Chrome for Google Summer of Code.

As a Google Summer of Code 2024 contributor for The R Project for Statistical Computing, I modernized the animint2 R package’s testing and screenshot infrastructure.

Key contributions:

  • Migrated the package from PhantomJS to Chrome, refactoring the visualization pipeline in R to enable headless browser testing and automated screenshot capture
  • Implemented automated testing with testthat across Windows, Ubuntu, and macOS environments
  • Developed a new HTML table layout system for multi-plot arrangements
  • Built automated screenshot export using webshot2 and ported 50+ interactive visualizations to a GitHub Pages gallery with expanded documentation