animate {raster} | R Documentation

## Animate layers of a Raster* object

### Description

Animate (sequentially plot) the layers of a RasterStack or RasterBrick* object to create a movie

### Usage

    ## S4 method for signature 'RasterStackBrick'
    animate(x, pause=0.25, main, zlim, maxpixels=50000, n=10, ...)

### Arguments

`x` | Raster* object
`pause` | numeric. How long should be the pause be between layers?
`main` | title for each layer. If not supplied the z-value is used if available. Otherwise the names are used.
`zlim` | numeric vector of lenght 2. Range of values to plot
`maxpixels` | integer > 0. Maximum number of cells to use for the plot. If `maxpixels < ncell(x)`, `sampleRegular` is used before plotting
`n` | integer > 0. Number of loops
`...` | Additional arguments passed to `plot`

### Value

None

### See Also

`plot`, `spplot`, `plotRGB`

### Examples

    b <- brick(system.file("external/rlogo.grd", package="raster"))
    animate(b, n=1)

[Package raster version 2.6-7 Index]