Possible to change color or opacity between frames in Plotly animation?

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Using the Plotly animation example, this works to modify the opacity overall

library(plotly)
library(gapminder)

gap <- gapminder
gap$opa <- 0.5

p <- gap %>%
  plot_ly(
    x = ~gdpPercap, 
    y = ~lifeExp, 
    size = ~pop, 
    color = ~continent, 
    frame = ~year, 
    opacity = ~opa,
    text = ~country, 
    hoverinfo = "text",
    type = 'scatter',
    mode = 'markers'
  ) %>%
  layout(
    xaxis = list(
      type = "log"
    )
  )

p

But what I would like to do is have the opacity change (or color) between frames so that I can hide data points before a certain frame but this doesn’t work:

library(plotly)
library(gapminder)

gap <- gapminder
gap$opa <- ifelse(gap$year < 1970, 0, 1)

p <- gap %>%
  plot_ly(
    x = ~gdpPercap, 
    y = ~lifeExp, 
    size = ~pop, 
    color = ~continent, 
    frame = ~year, 
    opacity = ~opa,
    text = ~country, 
    hoverinfo = "text",
    type = 'scatter',
    mode = 'markers'
  ) %>%
  layout(
    xaxis = list(
      type = "log"
    )
  )

p

Thanks!

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Did you find out how to change the color between frames?