saveSWF {animation} | R Documentation |
Convert images to Flash animations
Description
This function opens a graphical device first to generate a sequence of images
based on expr
, then makes use of the commands in SWFTools
(png2swf
, jpeg2swf
, pdf2swf
) to convert these
images to a single Flash animation.
Usage
saveSWF(
expr,
swf.name = "animation.swf",
img.name = "Rplot",
swftools = NULL,
...
)
Arguments
expr |
an expression to generate animations; use either the animation
functions (e.g. |
swf.name |
file name of the Flash file |
img.name |
the base file name of the sequence of images (without any format or extension) |
swftools |
the path of SWFTools, e.g. ‘C:/swftools’. This argument
is to make sure that |
... |
other arguments passed to |
Value
An integer indicating failure (-1) or success (0) of the converting
(refer to system
).
Note
Please download and install the SWFTools before using this function: http://www.swftools.org
We can also set the path to SWF Tools by ani.options(swftools =
'path/to/swftools')
.
ani.options('ani.type')
can only be one of png
, pdf
and jpeg
.
Also note that PDF graphics can be compressed using qpdf or Pdftk (if
either one is installed and ani.options('qpdf')
or
ani.options('pdftk')
has been set); see qpdf
or
pdftk
.
Author(s)
Yihui Xie
References
Examples at https://yihui.org/animation/example/saveswf/
See Also
Other utilities:
im.convert()
,
saveGIF()
,
saveHTML()
,
saveLatex()
,
saveVideo()