Creating a pie chart with historical motion in Rstudio So, I created several pie charts showing voting percentages for republicans and democrats, from 2008 to 2016 with plotly package in Rstudio. What I would like to do, to make it sleek, is create a menu for a user to click on(2008, 2012, 2016), and the pie chart would motion into the correct vote totals. Would I need to create a shiny app to do this?
Shiny App, will be the place to display the graphics, however the animation you are looking for is not something that plotly would create, to the best of my knowledge.

d3 however is a different beast. It can create aesthetically pleasing graphics. For your specific case, here is the example

https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/1346410 

Or you can look at the entire gallery