This is probably the most basic animated plot (.gif format) you can do with R and Image Magick.
- Start by building 10 images with
R - Use Image magick to concatenate them in a
gif
Of course, Image Magick must be installed on your computer. See here to install it.
Note: : This example has been found on Mark Heckmann’s R you ready website.
# Build 10 images -> save them at .png format
png(file="example%02d.png", width=480, height=480)
par(bg="grey")
for (i in c(10:1, "G0!")){
plot.new()
text(.5, .5, i, cex = 6 )
}
dev.off()
# Use image magick
system("convert -delay 80 *.png animated_count_down.gif")
# Remove png files
file.remove(list.files(pattern=".png"))
