gvisMotionChart() from r package googleVis generating blank plots in browser?

Question

I am using googleVis r package for first time & referred this link for the same but getting a blank chart in browser:

https://www.r-bloggers.com/2019/04/revisiting-world-bank-data-analysis-with-wdi-and-gvismotionchart/

To cross check I have also tried this on gapminder dataset and I am still getting a blank chart

library(gapminder)
library(tidyverse)
library(googleVis)

gapminder

gap <- gvisMotionChart(data = gapminder,
                idvar = "country",
                timevar = "year",
                xvar = "gdpPercap",
                yvar = "lifeExp",
                sizevar = "pop",
                colorvar = "continent"
                ) 

plot(gap)

browser output:

http://..... googleVis/MotionChartID20f874d20ab.html

Have also tried:

cat(gap$html$chart, file = "gvis1.html")

From one of SO post it looked like there could be flash player issues Cannot view gvisMotionChart from printed html file

And from adobe website it seems that flash is no longer supported: https://www.adobe.com/in/products/flashplayer/end-of-life.html

Does that mean googlevis Motion chart won't work anymore?

Answer 1

Sorry to say, I have the same issue and it seems that Flash is no longer supported so these graphs don't work anymore.