[R] playing with R: make a animated GIF file...

[Katharine Mullen]

you could first make the frames to put together in R, then outside of R
glue the frames into a gif.

eg:

frames<-10
for(i in 1:frames) {
      jpeg(paste("ani_", i, ".jpg", sep = ""))
      plot(1:10,1:10, col = i)
      dev.off()
}

then use an image editing program to glue the jpgs together -- eg free and
crossplatform imagemagick (www.imagemagick.org).
under linux and once imagemagick is installed, the command

$ convert -delay 10 ani_*.jpg animation.gif

makes a looping animated gif `animation.gif' with 10/100 sec. between
frame flips.

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Katharine Mullen
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