title: How to create and display an animated GIF in Shiny?
body: <p>I'm able to load a saved file as an image but unable to use <code>gganimate</code> to do it directly. Alternate ways of rendering GIFs would be nice to know but knowing how to render <code>gganimate</code> specifically would really solve my problem.</p>
  
  <pre><code>library(gapminder)
  library(ggplot2)
  library(shiny)
  library(gganimate)
  theme_set(theme_bw())
  
  ui &lt;- basicPage(
      plotOutput("plot1")
  )
  
  server &lt;- function(input, output) {
      output$plot1 &lt;- renderPlot({
          p = ggplot(gapminder, aes(gdpPercap, lifeExp, size = pop, color = continent, frame = year)) +
    geom_point() +
    scale_x_log10()
  
         gg_animate(p)
  
      })
  
  }
  
  shinyApp(ui, server)
  </code></pre>