I will not update the vignette any more. For more information, please visit this wiki:

AniWiki: Animations in Statistics

Or if you still want to read the old vignette, you can find it here.

A paper about this package has been published in R News:

Yihui Xie and Xiaoyue Cheng. animation: A package for statistical animations. R News, 8(2):23-27, October 2008. [ bib | http | .pdf ]