How to user images and its source attribute

My plotly scatter chart works in my Shiny for R application. Now I am trying to add a background image to the plot using the ‘layout’ and its source attribute. Here is the relevant piece of code:

    pplot <- plot_ly(type='scatter',mode='lines',x=df[,2],y=df[,1],line=list(color='black'))%>%
      add_trace(x=c(min(df[,2]),max(df[,2])),y=Well[2:3,3],line=list(color='red'))%>%
      layout(xaxis=list(title=dd_xlabels[xnm],titlefont=list(size=12),showgrid=TRUE,showline=TRUE),
             yaxis=list(showgrid=TRUE),showlegend=FALSE,images=list(source("C1_9195-9197.jpg",local=TRUE)))

I am getting the following error:

EOF whilst reading MBCS char at line 1

With a stacktrace that shows that the error is in the line above. If I remove “images=list(…” then the plot renders fine but obviously without the background image in the file C1_9195-9197.jp