Pause between gganimate loops

Question

Is it possible to add a pause between gganimate loops? I know we can set the interval between frames with interval, but is there a way to pause on the final frame before looping back to the first frame?

Is the best method to insert multiple copies of the final frame into the data?

Answer 1

In recent versions of gganimate, the animate() function has an end_pause option. So you can simply do

animate(p, end_pause = 30)

in order to pause for, for example, 30 frames before looping again.