Making animated gifs using R

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Does anyone have any tips regarding making animated GIFs in R? I'm trying to make some time lapse map GIFs.

@David_Arenburg this was marked duplicate and linked to another question, but that question is closed for being "too broad"... — colin, Jul 23 '19 at 13:00

score 7 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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Repeat Question : Please see this previous StackOverflow question on creating a series of plots in R which offers a number of solutions including pointers to other useful packages such as the animation package.

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answered Sep 06 '09 at 00:14

Dirk Eddelbuettel

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FYI, suggested ways to handle duplicate questions: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10841/how-to-handle-duplicate-questions/10844#10844 – Argalatyr Sep 06 '09 at 15:17
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Thanks for the hint -- will try to remember that next time :) – Dirk Eddelbuettel Sep 06 '09 at 15:47

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 06 '09 at 00:13

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Also be sure to check out the animation package

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 05 '09 at 23:20

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I'd recommend just generating a series of png files (which happens by default each time you run plot with the png device open). You can then combine them into an animated gif with another program such as ImageMagick.

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 06 '09 at 15:00

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Here is sample code of using Imagemagick (called through R) for any sequence of png's you generate.

answered Sep 06 '09 at 15:00

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Making animated gifs using R

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