How to "catch" the .gif output created by gganimate upon evaluation?

[MichelNivard]

I am writing a mini R REPL for use in contexts where a full IDE (e.g.RStudio/postron) isn't appropriate/feasible.

Within the REPL I have been evaluating user code with the evaluate() function in the evaluate library. However, if the user were to user 'gganimate' elements with their ggplot(), there is no recordedPlot after evaluatino that I can save/store/present, rather a .gif is saved to the tmpdir.

Ideally i'd catch that .gif, much like the RStudio viewer pane does. I'd Ideally do this without having to inject custom R code onto the tail of the user code to fix the save location if gganimate is used as thatw ould require all kinds of custom processing of the user code to dete ct gganimate was used. Arer there any obvvious ways in which I can catch the tempfile created by gganimate?

[MichelNivard]

I got it to work with minimal post-process, never mind