phosphoricons

R wrapper for using Phosphor Icons in shiny applications or rmarkdown documents. Visit phosphoricons.com for a list of all available icons.

Installation

Install from CRAN with:

install.packages("phosphoricons")

You can install development version from GitHub with:

remotes::install_github("dreamRs/phosphoricons")

Icons usage

Create an icon with ph() function:

library(phosphoricons)
ph("lightning")

There’s 5 weights available:

ph("lightning", weight = "thin")

ph("lightning", weight = "light")

ph("lightning", weight = "regular")

ph("lightning", weight = "bold")

ph("lightning", weight = "fill")

Colorize icon using fill argument:

ph("lightning", weight = "bold", fill = "gold")

There’s two type of icons:

SVG icons, created with ph()
Font icons, created with ph_i()

There’s a big debate between Web Fonts vs SVG for icons, but mainly:

Web fonts require an htmlDependency that include all icons even if you use one, it will increase the size of your document in self contained mode.
SVG icons won’t currently work with some shiny functions with an icon argument.

Bonus

Fill icon according to percentage:

ph_fill(
  ph("heart", weight = "fill", height = 128),
  colors = c("#DF0101", "#F6CECE"),
  breaks = 0.7
)

ph_fill(
  ph("star", weight = "fill", height = 128, stroke = "gold", `stroke-width` = 10),
  colors = c("gold", "#FFF"),
  breaks = 0.5,
  orientation = "h"
)

Icon waffle:

waffle_icon(
  values = sample(c("Cats", "Dogs"), 200, TRUE),
  colors = list(
    Cats = "#456990",
    Dogs = "#F45B69"
  ),
  icons = list(
    Cats = ph("cat", height = NULL),
    Dogs = ph("dog", height = NULL)
  ),
  ncol = 15,
  nrow = 8,
  width = "500px"
)