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title: Resources
date: '2017-03-29'
slug: resources
---

Here we list some additional resources related to the **animation** package. If you have any links to share with us, please feel free to hit the edit button above on the right to revise this page and send a pull request via GitHub.

- [ImageMagick](https://www.imagemagick.org): a comprehensive open-source image processing library
- [GraphicsMagick](http://www.graphicsmagick.org/): another image processing system
- [FFmpeg](http://ffmpeg.org/): a complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video
- [SWFTools](http://www.swftools.org/): a collection of utilities for working with Adobe Flash files (SWF files)
- [**animate**](https://www.ctan.org/pkg/animate): an interface to create portable, JavaScript driven PDF animations from sets of (vector) graphics or rasterized image files or from inline (vector) graphics
- R packages
    - the R package [**av**](https://docs.ropensci.org/av/) (bindings to FFmpeg)
    - the R package [**gifski**](https://github.com/r-rust/gifski) (bindings to [gifski](https://gif.ski/))
    - the R package [**magick**](https://cran.rstudio.com/package=magick) (bindings to ImageMagick)
    - [**gganimate**](https://github.com/dgrtwo/gganimate): Create easy animations with **ggplot2**
