fontawesome

Overview

About

Maintained by Richard IannoneFirst published 2021-02-2210 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Easily and flexibly insert 'Font Awesome' icons into 'R Markdown' documents and 'Shiny' apps. These icons can be inserted into HTML content through inline 'SVG' tags or 'i' tags. There is also a utility function for exporting 'Font Awesome' icons as 'PNG' images for those situations where raster graphics are needed.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("fontawesome", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("rstudio/fontawesome")

Development version from rstudio/fontawesome. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-fontawesome

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-fontawesome

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-fontawesome

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.35

75.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

2

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 516 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 57%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

12.4M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #60 · ~34K/day · ~1M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

983.8K30 days

3.2M90 days

12.4M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on141.9K r2u35 autocran1M conda_forge5.6K c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ rstudio/fontawesome

300Stars

39Forks

8Open issues

1Open PRs

10Releases

607Commits

9Contributors

rfont-awesomesvg-icons

607 commits · Last activity 2025-10-05 · +0.3% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-05-28 · 2932026-07-07 · 300

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 5 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/fontawesome on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (1)

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Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (2)

rlang htmltools

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

covr dplyr gt knitr testthat rsvg

Enhances (0)

none

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Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 1,148 (78%)Rd 328 (22%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S31

Cyclomatic complexity: 4.0 median / 16 max
Test cases: 6 / 0.35 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

76%

Expression

72.3%

Tests / Examples

75.7% / 0% ex

Functions

15 5 exported

Complexity

4.1 avg / 16 max

Call network

15 nodes / 10 edges

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Lowest coverage

15 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
s3_register	6	0%
parse_length_unit	4	76%
fa exp	16	93%
get_icon_idx	6	94%
fa_html_dependency exp	1	100%
fa_i exp	4	100%

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Richard Iannone

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Richard Iannone

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (3)

Winston Chang

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Christophe Dervieux

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Dave Gandy

Contributor, Copyright holder

Copyright holders (2)

Dave Gandy

Contributor, Copyright holder

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.5.0

Funders (1)

Posit Software, PBC

Copyright holder, Funder · added in 0.5.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

RStudio

no longer listed · 0.1.0 to 0.4.0

Package Timeline

10 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
0.5.3Latest
2024-11-16 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.5.2
2023-08-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.5.1
2023-04-18 · diff ↗
0.5.0
2023-01-25 · diff ↗
0.4.0
2022-10-25 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2022-07-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.2.2
2021-07-02 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.1
2021-04-23 · diff ↗
0.2.0
2021-03-28 · diff ↗
0.1.0
2021-02-22

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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-02-22
Total releases: 10 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.0
Download size: 1.3 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet