I am an experienced R programmer, but beginner with programming automata scripts (in fact I just learned about them recently). I've produced a script that calculates (based on some minimal rules from the wikipedia page on Conway's game of life) the grid-like position for any given starting position. I am fairly confident that it's working at least as far as the data, but I can't figure out the best way to kind of animate or make these plots change in the viewer- in fact I have no idea what the best way to visualize a sort of NxM grid in this way.