cannot find ImageMagick with convert = "convert" about gganimate

[AshPrasad]

Error showing up in my code
C:\Program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

[ocstringham]

try this: first load animation package

library(animation)

then add add ani.options parameter into the gganimate function:
gganimate(p, ani.options(convert = 'path/to/convert.exe'))

[espinielli]

I applied what mentioned in #22 (prepend PATH with ImageMagick installation path) and now the right convert can be found.

[espinielli]

I had the same.
I think this is a symptom of name clash with MS Windows' own convert.exe under C:\WINDOWS\system32

[AlexYoung757]

@espinielli thank you for your help , i have solve this problem

[hamnsannah]

Does anyone know how to find the correct file path for a Linux installation for this needed file? I'm on Ubuntu 16.04. I've looked around many of the directories and can't find either convert.exe or magick.exe. I did install the libmagick++dev library as directed in the magick vignette

[popovs]

@hamnsannah this is likely because you didn't check the "Install legacy files" checkbox in the installer. convert.exe doesn't exist in the newer versions of ImageMagick. Try using homebrew for Linux to install ImageMagick for you - made everything super clean and easy on OSX for me: http://linuxbrew.sh/

As for me this thing just is not working on Windows. I've installed the legacy files, added the ImageMagick directory to my Path, tried using installr to install the files (as suggested here #22 ) to no avail. Here's what I get:

gganimate(p, interval=0.2, ani.options(convert = "C:/Program Files/ImageMagick-7.0.7-Q16/convert.exe"))
> Error in savers[[saver]] : no such index at level 1

[dgrtwo]

We are finishing a complete rewrite of gganimate undertaken by Thomas Pedersen, with massive breaking changes to the API (this will come with a version bump to 1.0.0; currently 0.9.9.9999). This fixes many existing bugs and installation difficulties, and offers a more intuitive grammar of graphics.

As a result I'm closing almost all open issues, since they aren't relevant to the new version (bug reports in particular no longer apply). I apologize for any inconvenience in updating your existing code, but the new version of gganimate will be well worth the effort.

• If you are still interested in this issue and believe it is relevant to the new version of gganimate, you can reopen it!

• If you'd like to continue using the old gganimate version (which we do not recommend, as it will not be maintained), you can install from this release using the following code:

  devtools::install_github("dgrtwo/gganimate", ref = "v0.1.1”)