
After you have installed FFmpeg on your system, you can verify that R knows where to find it by typing Sys.which('ffmpeg') in the R terminal. Here are some all-too-brief instructions for the various platforms.

This internal function doesn't actually install the ffmpeg library, it just gives instructions on how to do the installation – which really just point to these docs. The animation package uses ffmpeg to export movies into video formats.

Instructions for installing ffmpeg on various platforms
