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favawesome

Easily use {fontawesome} icons as shiny favicons (the icons that appear on browser tabs). Font Awesome is a popular set of icons that can be used in web pages. {favawesome} provides a simple way to use these icons as favicons in shiny applications and other HTML pages.

Installation

You can install the latest release of favawesome from CRAN with:

install.packages("favawesome")

You can install the development version of favawesome from GitHub with:

# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("shinyworks/favawesome")

Motivation

If you’ve spent time in the Chrome Developer Tools Console (ctrl + shift + I) for shiny apps, you may have seen this familiar error message:

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 () /favicon.ico:1

False alarms make it easy to miss real error messages, so I wanted a way to silence that error message without adding a bunch of dependencies to my shiny app. This package does not add any dependencies that are not already required by {shiny}.

Usage

Add a call to favawesome::fav() to your shiny UI code or other HTML.

html_page <- htmltools::tags$html(
  favawesome::fav("earth-africa", fill = "blue"),
  htmltools::tags$body(
    htmltools::tags$h1("Hello world!"),
    htmltools::tags$p("(on the browser tab)")
  )
)
htmltools::html_print(html_page, viewer = utils::browseURL)

Code of Conduct

Please note that the {favawesome} project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.