R Observatory: Metrics for emojifont version 0.6.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

emojifont

0.6.0Package record

Emoji and Font Awesome in Graphics

3packages dependsuggested by 2

27.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Guangchuang YuCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

An implementation of using emoji and fontawesome for using in both base and 'ggplot2' graphics.

Changes in 0.6.0

switch default emoji font to OpenMoji Black (2026-02-27, Fri)
keep backward compatibility: loading EmojiOne/OpenSansEmoji shows message and uses OpenMoji
update vignette to use OpenMoji family and related examples
add script inst/scripts/fetch_openmoji_black.R to download OpenMoji-Black.ttf
update inst/scripts/fetch_fontawesome.R to match runtime CSS parsing logic
add helper update_sysdata() to write fontawesome_data and emoji_data into R/sysdata.rda
migrate vignette to Quarto (VignetteBuilder: quarto) (2026-02-26, Thu)
add “Emoji in tables” example using knitr::kable
fix ggplot2 deprecation: replace aes_() with aes() and use rlang::sym
add rlang to Imports and update NAMESPACE accordingly

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("emojifont", 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("GuangchuangYu/emojifont")

Development version from GuangchuangYu/emojifont. 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-emojifont

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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-emojifont

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

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.6 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.6.0

READMEYes · 101 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.6.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 11
Examples that run: 100%4 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 36%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 82%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

emojifont introduction HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

27.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #3,216 · ~75/day · ~2.3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

1.2K30 days

3.7K90 days

27.3K1 year

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Also on289 r2u3K conda_forge

How downloads are counted

Repository

guangchuangyu/emojifont ↗Account: GuangchuangYu

67Stars

22Forks

9Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

67Commits

3Commit identities

emojiggplot2rvisualizationfont-awesome

67 commits · Last activity 2026-02-27

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 1
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-05-01 · 672026-07-07 · 67

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/guangchuangyu/emojifont on 2026-10-18.

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-02-27

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing emojifont adds 21 packages (9 with compiled code, 18 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, showtextdb 1.9 MB, isoband 1.5 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (6)

ggplot2 proto showtext sysfontsutilsrlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

knitr quarto yulab.utils

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

Imports 3

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

abstractr normfluodbf carbonr

Suggests, most downloaded first

superb mazing

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Guangchuang Yu

Author, Maintainer since 0.3.1 (2016)

Claus Thorn Ekstrøm

Contributor · added in 0.5.1

Releases (13)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

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0.4.1
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2017-03-06 · diff ↗
0.4.0
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2017-02-15 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
geom_emoji, geom_fontawesome
0.3.7
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2016-12-28 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
sample_emoji, sample_fontawesome
0.3.4
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2016-06-29 · diff ↗
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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2016-04-21 · diff ↗
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2016-03-09 · diff ↗
0.3.1
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2016-02-26
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2016-02-26
Total releases: 13 / 10 yrs
License: Artistic-2.0 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 1.2 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("emojifont")

Format

Yu, G., & Ekstrøm, C. T. (2026). emojifont: Emoji and Font Awesome in Graphics (Version 0.6.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.emojifont

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for emojifont version 0.6.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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