Error saving gif video with R animation library and Imagemagick

Question

I am trying to create a simple .gif video using Windows 7. I installed ImageMagick and it seems to be working by itself. Here is the following code I tried to run and the

Answer 1

I had the same problem. The short path trick does it! But With Image Magick Version 7.x there no longer is a "convert.exe". The following works:

ani.options(convert=shortPathName("C:\\Program Files\\ImageMagick\\magick.exe"))

Answer 2

I encountered the same problem. Imposing a short file path solved the error for me.

 path.to.convert <- paste0(shortPathName(
                    "C:\\Program Files\\ImageMagick-6.9.0-Q16\\"), "convert.exe")
 ani.options(convert=path.to.convert)