Mitchell O'Hara-Wild

### Icons in R

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<p>The <a href="https://github.com/ropenscilabs/icon">icon</a> package
provides a convenient interface for adding icons from popular web fonts
to R Markdown documents. The project began at <a
href="https://ozunconf17.ropensci.org/">rOpenSci OzUnconf 2017</a>, and
was developed by <a href="https://github.com/mitchelloharawild">Mitchell
O’Hara-Wild</a>, <a href="https://github.com/earowang">Earo Wang</a> and
<a href="https://github.com/timothyhyndman">Timothy Hyndman</a>. The
package currently supports icons from <a
href="https://fontawesome.com/">Font Awesome</a>, <a
href="https://jpswalsh.github.io/academicons/">Academicons</a>, and <a
href="https://ionicons.com/">ionicons</a>.</p>
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Icons can be added to your R Markdown documents using short prefixes
which identify the font's library.

- fa: Font Awesome
- ai: Academicons
- ii: ionicons

For example, `` `r icon::fa("rocket")` `` can be used to add the [rocket
icon](https://fontawesome.com/icons/rocket) from Font Awesome. This
interface is convenient if you are familiar with the icon you want, or
if you are dynamically selecting your icon.

The package also provides a second interface which allows for tab
completion of font names. To include the rocket icon above, you could
instead use `` `r icon::fa_rocket()` ``. This is a useful interface for
if you are unfamiliar with the available icons or their names.

Each icon function also provides support for modifying the attributes of
the icon such as size, colour, rotation, and animation. We can make the
rocket icon spin using `` `r icon::fa_rocket(animate = "spin")` ``.

### R in icons

The long-awaited [R Project icon](https://cran.r-project.org/logo.html)
has been added to the Font Awesome library in version 5.0.11. This
addition comes nearly four years since the icon's [first
request](https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/3862) after
being brought into the spotlight of
[\#rstats](https://twitter.com/hashtag/rstats) with
[LockeData](https://twitter.com/LockeData)'s tweet.

> Hey, the
> [\#rstats](https://twitter.com/hashtag/rstats?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> logo is \#40 on the
> [@fontawesome](https://twitter.com/fontawesome?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)
> brand board - go give it some 👍 so we can get it
> higher\!<https://t.co/jdEcVMJyip>
>
> --- Locke Data (@LockeData) [April 20,
> 2018](https://twitter.com/LockeData/status/987286302721806337?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

Finally, it is possible to use an R package to include the R icon in
your R Markdown documents!

`` `r fa_rocket(colour = "#1FA67A")` `` +
`` `r fa_r_project(colour = "#384CB7")` `` =
`` `r fa_heart(colour = "red")` ``

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<img src="WImIaGx.png" />
</figure>

### Future development

There are plans to submit the icon package to CRAN, however there are a
few things we would like to work on first. The top development priority
is transitioning from web-font icons to svg icons. This should
drastically reduce the load times of documents using icons, and allow
the user to import their own icon libraries. Before release, we would
also like to add further support for manipulating icons with modifier
functions, and resolve an R Markdown issue relating to [using icons
within headers](https://github.com/ropenscilabs/icon/issues/7).

You can install and try out the latest version of the `icon` package
today via:

``` {tabindex="0"}
devtools::install_github("ropenscilabs/icon")
```


Icons in R                Icons can be added to your R Markdown documents using short prefixes which identify the font’s library.fa: Font Awesomeai: Academiconsii: ionicons For example, `r  icon::fa("rocket")` can be used to add the rocket icon from Font Awesome. This interface is convenient if you are familiar with the icon you want, or if you are dynamically selecting your icon.

icon: web icons for rmarkdown

University of Glasgow

Roderic Page

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Trivial as this may seem, I\'m trying to find out who designed this
\"Open Access\" logo, and whether there are some original files for it.
I\'ve seen this logo (or variations on it) on the [PLoS web
site](http://www.plos.org/), the open access publisher [Hindawi
Publishing](http://www.hindawi.com/oa.html), and the Mac OS X program
[Papers](http://mekentosj.com/papers/) uses it.  
  
It\'s driving me nuts that I can\'t find the original. Other widely used
logos typically have a site where a designer or organisation provides a
bunch of versions in different formats, such as the [Creative Commons
symbols](http://creativecommons.org/presskit), the ubiquitous
![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4bID5Dj5W1bOPwuUJz8LBBY72E3WJgvY3pvvHmKr8V5mX0K0IM0N_Rv-5zkG4L3tMivuGzawBnX3mM0cUD14e0rkkgeej17qKbUGjCdWEbPg5L-MY67gCytvkBo_A2EzBkWjV/s200/feed-icon-14x14.png){#BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198072880316336722
border="0"} [RSS feed icon](http://www.feedicons.com/), and other
projects such as the
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border="0"} [Geotag icon](http://www.geotagicons.com/). It\'s sometimes
desirable to have different formats of an icon, and ideally have a
vector-based version (e.g., in EPS or SVG) format that can be used to
create images at different resolutions, and these projects provide these
files.  
  
Apart from the interesting fact that there doesn\'t seem to be a
standard logo or symbol for Open Access, does anybody know where this
logo came from?


Trivial as this may seem, I'm trying to find out who designed this "Open Access" logo, and whether there are some original files for it. I've seen this logo (or variations on it) on the PLoS web site, the open access publisher Hindawi Publishing, and the Mac OS X program Papers uses it.It's driving me nuts that I can't find the original.

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icon: web icons for rmarkdown

Open Access logo - help