Creating an animated gif image

Imagemagick can also be used to create animations!

convert -delay 10 -loop 0 DSC003* animation.gif

Where DSC003* are the files that are going to be used for the animations. They can be in about any format.

As a (rather stupid) example, I created 16 barplots in R with different colors and animated this:

in R:
$ pdf('example.pdf')
$ for (i in seq(5,20)){barplot(1:20,col=rainbow(i))}
$ dev.off()

in Shell:
$ convert example.pdf example.png
$ convert -delay 10 -loop 1 example-*png animation.gif

The 16 different barplots.

The slightly psychedelic animation.