Using R and the A* Algorithm: Animated Pathfinding with gganimate

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This post is the second part of a series on using the A* algorithm in R.
While my previous post introduced the machow/astar-r library, and how it works, in this one I’ll focus on visualizing it finding a solution with gganimate. Below is an outline of what I’ll cover.
manually define a maze and plot it with ggplot use an example class from the astar library to navigate it add a…

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