Caught segfault error on version 1.0.9 when running in Rmarkdown

[Mosk915]

I am on version 1.0.9 of gganimate and getting a segfault error when I try to save an animation via anim_save but only when via Rmarkdown. All packages installed are on their latest CRAN version. When rolling gganimate back to version 1.0.8, there is no issue.

Here is a reproducible example.

---
title: "gganimate"
---

```{r}
library(gganimate)

anim <- ggplot(mtcars, aes(mpg, disp)) +
  transition_states(gear, transition_length = 2, state_length = 1) +
  enter_fade() +
  exit_fade()

anim_save(animation = anim, filename = tempfile(), renderer = magick_renderer())
```

Here is the full error.

*** caught segfault ***
address (nil), cause 'memory not mapped'

Traceback:
1: magick_image_write(image, format, quality, depth, density, comment, compression)
2: magick::image_write(animation, file)
3: `save_animation.magick-image`(animation, filename)
4: save_animation(animation, filename)
5: anim_save(animation = anim, filename = tempfile(), renderer = magick_renderer())
6: eval(expr, envir, enclos)
7: eval(expr, envir, enclos)
8: eval_with_user_handlers(expr, envir, enclos, user_handlers)
9: withVisible(eval_with_user_handlers(expr, envir, enclos, user_handlers))
10: withCallingHandlers(withVisible(eval_with_user_handlers(expr, envir, enclos, user_handlers)), warning = wHandler, error = eHandler, message = mHandler)
11: handle(ev <- withCallingHandlers(withVisible(eval_with_user_handlers(expr, envir, enclos, user_handlers)), warning = wHandler, error = eHandler, message = mHandler))
12: timing_fn(handle(ev <- withCallingHandlers(withVisible(eval_with_user_handlers(expr, envir, enclos, user_handlers)), warning = wHandler, error = eHandler, message = mHandler)))
13: evaluate_call(expr, parsed$src[[i]], envir = envir, enclos = enclos, debug = debug, last = i == length(out), use_try = stop_on_error != 2L, keep_warning = keep_warning, keep_message = keep_message, log_echo = log_echo, log_warning = log_warning, output_handler = output_handler, include_timing = include_timing)
14: evaluate::evaluate(...)
15: evaluate(code, envir = env, new_device = FALSE, keep_warning = if (is.numeric(options$warning)) TRUE else options$warning, keep_message = if (is.numeric(options$message)) TRUE else options$message, stop_on_error = if (is.numeric(options$error)) options$error else { if (options$error && options$include) 0L else 2L }, output_handler = knit_handlers(options$render, options))
16: in_dir(input_dir(), expr)
17: in_input_dir(evaluate(code, envir = env, new_device = FALSE, keep_warning = if (is.numeric(options$warning)) TRUE else options$warning, keep_message = if (is.numeric(options$message)) TRUE else options$message, stop_on_error = if (is.numeric(options$error)) options$error else { if (options$error && options$include) 0L else 2L }, output_handler = knit_handlers(options$render, options)))
18: eng_r(options)
19: block_exec(params)
20: call_block(x)
21: process_group(group)
22: withCallingHandlers(if (tangle) process_tangle(group) else process_group(group), error = function(e) if (xfun::pkg_available("rlang", "1.0.0")) rlang::entrace(e))
23: xfun:::handle_error(withCallingHandlers(if (tangle) process_tangle(group) else process_group(group), error = function(e) if (xfun::pkg_available("rlang", "1.0.0")) rlang::entrace(e)), function(loc) { setwd(wd) write_utf8(res, output %n% stdout()) paste0("\nQuitting from lines ", loc) }, if (labels[i] != "") sprintf(" [%s]", labels[i]), get_loc)
24: process_file(text, output)
25: knitr::knit(knit_input, knit_output, envir = envir, quiet = quiet)
26: rmarkdown::render("/home/user/gganimate/gganimate.Rmd", encoding = "UTF-8")
An irrecoverable exception occurred. R is aborting now ...

If it's useful to know, my operating system is Ubuntu 20.04.

[rikudoukarthik]

I am having almost the same issue with gganimate code on Linux Mint 22. Initially posted it as a Quarto issue, please see that for more details.

I tried rolling gganimate back to 1.0.8 as well as 1.0.7, but neither of them fixed the issue, and I am still getting the same error. I tried both Quarto and RMarkdown, and both of them produce the error. Since the first line of the stack trace mentions an issue with the magick call, I believe the issue has to do with gganimate and not with knitr.

Any thoughts on the solution here would be very useful.

[jleinaweaver]

I was having this exact same problem after updating my R to version 4.5.

What fixed it for me was purging R and config files, reinstalling and reinstalling the "gifski" package.

I suspect the only necessary part was reinstalling gifski as that seems to be how gganimate saves its output.