Error in gg_playback - no images recorded to playback

[joshpersi]

I am unable to reproduce a gif using the example code in the README.md.

Here is minimal subset of the code:

library(ggplot2)
library(camcorder)

gg_record(
  dir = file.path(tempdir(), "recording100"), # where to save the recording
  device = "png", # device to use to save images
  width = 4,      # width of saved image
  height = 6,     # height of saved image
  units = "in",   # units for width and height
  dpi = 300       # dpi to use when saving image
)

ggplot(mtcars, aes(x = mpg, y = hp)) +
  geom_point()

gg_playback(
  name = file.path(tempdir(), "recording", "vignette_gif.gif"),
  first_image_duration = 5,
  last_image_duration = 15,
  frame_duration = .4,
  image_resize = 800
)

However, when I run the above, I get this error:

Warning message:
In gg_playback(name = file.path(tempdir(), "recording", "vignette_gif.gif"),  :
  No images recorded to playback.
Error in `normalizePath()`:
! path[1]=NA

If I look into the temp directory, I see an empty recording100/resized directory and a positron-plot-renderings directory with the one plot made via the above code (and a file called dummy-plot.png). If I use RStudio instead, I get the same error, see the same empty recording100/resized directory, and and rs-graphics-c3b085a5-9906-4222-86f1-6b97cdd51232 directory that is seemingly similar to positron-plot-renderings (i.e. same types of files, different names).

Here is my session info:

R version 4.5.1 (2025-06-13 ucrt)
Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64
Running under: Windows 11 x64 (build 22631)

Matrix products: default
  LAPACK version 3.12.1

locale:
[1] English_United States.1252

time zone: America/Vancouver
tzcode source: internal

attached base packages:
[1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base     

other attached packages:
[1] camcorder_0.1.0 ggplot2_4.0.0  

loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
 [1] vctrs_0.6.5        svglite_2.2.2      cli_3.6.5          rlang_1.1.6       
 [5] magick_2.9.0       gifski_1.32.0-2    rsvg_2.7.0         renv_1.1.5        
 [9] generics_0.1.4     textshaping_1.0.4  S7_0.2.0           jsonlite_2.0.0    
[13] labeling_0.4.3     glue_1.8.0         scales_1.4.0       grid_4.5.1        
[17] tibble_3.3.0       lifecycle_1.0.4    compiler_4.5.1     dplyr_1.1.4       
[21] fs_1.6.6           RColorBrewer_1.1-3 Rcpp_1.1.0         pkgconfig_2.0.3   
[25] systemfonts_1.3.1  farver_2.1.2       R6_2.6.1           tidyselect_1.2.1  
[29] pillar_1.11.1      magrittr_2.0.4     tools_4.5.1        withr_3.0.2       
[33] gtable_0.3.6