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Getting gganimate to work on Mac
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  1. visit for intructions for other OS: https://www.imagemagick.org/script/download.php
  2. download: ImageMagick-x86_64-apple-darwin16.4.0.tar.gz from download button
  3. create (or choose) a directory to install the package into and change to that directory:

cd Desktop/R-directory

mkdir ImageMagick

cd ImageMagick/

  1. extract the contents of the package:

tar xvzf ImageMagick-x86_64-apple-darwin16.4.0.tar.gz

  1. export things:

export MAGICK_HOME="$HOME/Desktop/R-directory/ImageMagick/ImageMagick-7.0.5"

export PATH="$MAGICK_HOME/bin:$PATH"

export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="$MAGICK_HOME/lib/"

  1. visit: https://www.xquartz.org/index.html and download latest version
  2. use installer as noramlly by double clicking on icon
  3. log out and log back in of current session to make the X11 the deafult
  4. export DISPLAY=:0
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