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R GIF animation with ImageMagick

I’ve worked on the Internet for more than an hour and tried everything I found on this topic. I am trying to animate a plot in R using an animation package:

library(animation)
saveGIF({
for(i in 1:10) {
    plot(x=rnorm(10),y=rnorm(10))
}
})

This results in the following error:

Executing: 
"convert.exe" -loop 0 -delay 100 Rplot1.png Rplot2.png Rplot3.png     Rplot4.png Rplot5.png Rplot6.png Rplot7.png Rplot8.png Rplot9.png Rplot10.png
"animation.gif"
Der Befehl "convert.exe" -loop 0  -delay 100 Rplot1.png Rplot2.png     Rplot3.png Rplot4.png Rplot5.png Rplot6.png Rplot7.png Rplot8.png Rplot9.png Rplot10.png "animation.gif" ist entweder falsch geschrieben oder
konnte nicht gefunden werden.
Unzul„ssiger Parameter - 0
an error occurred in the conversion... see Notes in ?im.convert
[1] FALSE
Warning messages:
1: running command 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\cmd.exe /c "convert.exe" -loop 0  -delay 100 Rplot1.png Rplot2.png Rplot3.png Rplot4.png Rplot5.png Rplot6.png Rplot7.png Rplot8.png Rplot9.png Rplot10.png "animation.gif"' had status 1 
2: In cmd.fun(convert) :
'"convert.exe" -loop 0  -delay 100 Rplot1.png Rplot2.png Rplot3.png Rplot4.png Rplot5.png Rplot6.png Rplot7.png Rplot8.png Rplot9.png Rplot10.png "animation.gif"' execution failed with error code 1 
3: running command '"convert.exe" -loop 0  -delay 100 Rplot1.png Rplot2.png Rplot3.png Rplot4.png Rplot5.png Rplot6.png Rplot7.png Rplot8.png Rplot9.png Rplot10.png "animation.gif"' had status 4

I already checked the system path variable

Sys.getenv('PATH')
"C:/Program Files/R\\R-3.0.2\\bin\\x64;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\ImageMagick-6.9.0-Q16;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\NVIDIA Corporation\\PhysX\\Common;C:\\ProgramData\\Oracle\\Java\\javapath;C:\\Windows;C:\\Windows\\System32\\Wbem;C:\\Windows\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\;C:\\WINDOWS;C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\Wbem;C:\\WINDOWS\\System32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\;F:\\Program Files (x86)\\MATLAB\\R2014a\\bin;C:\\Program Files (x86)\\MiKTeX 2.9\\miktex\\bin\\;C:\\Users\\Maddin\\AppData\\Local\\Pandoc\\"

I tried the 64-bit and 32-bit versions of ImageMagick. I tried setting the ani.options attribute manually. Nothing helped. When I open the command line tool and check if convert.exe works, everything is fine. But from within R, I just can't get it to work.

Fun fact: it works flawlessly on my MacBook .....

Here is my sessionInfo ():

R version 3.0.2 (2013-09-25)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)

locale:
[1] LC_COLLATE=German_Germany.1252  LC_CTYPE=German_Germany.1252    LC_MONETARY=German_Germany.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C                    LC_TIME=German_Germany.1252    

attached base packages:
[1] grid      stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] ggplot2_1.0.0 animation_2.3 dplyr_0.2     magrittr_1.5 

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
[1] assertthat_0.1   colorspace_1.2-4 digest_0.6.4     gtable_0.1.2     lattice_0.20-29  lmtest_0.9-33    MASS_7.3-33      munsell_0.4.2   parallel_3.0.2  
[10] plyr_1.8.1       proto_0.3-10     Rcpp_0.11.3      reshape2_1.4     sandwich_2.3-2   scales_0.2.4     stringr_0.6.2    tools_3.0.2      urca_1.2-8      
[19] vars_1.5-2       zoo_1.7-11

Does anyone know what else I could try?

Martin

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im.convert(), issue # 71. im.convert() (Windows Vista Revolution R). , saveGIF() . - , GIF ?

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install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)

dev_mode(on=T)

install.packages('animation', repos = 'http://yihui.name/xran')
library(animation)
saveGIF({
    for (i in 1:10) plot(runif(10), ylim = 0:1)
})

dev_mode(on=F)
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. , .

library(devtools)
install_github("yihui/animation")
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