R Observatory: Metrics for fontawesome version 0.5.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

fontawesome

0.5.3Package record

Easily Work with 'Font Awesome' Icons

25packages dependsuggested by 10

12.6Mdownloads / year

75.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Richard IannoneCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: Posit Software, PBC

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.

Changes in 0.5.3

Updated icon set to that of Font Awesome 6.5.2. (#119)
Added page on pkgdown site that contains a table showing all of the icons available in the package. (#113)
The fa() function now allows percentage values to be used as height and width args (#117). (#125)
When using fa_i(), the class value is appended when a fully-qualified name is used (#122. (#123, thanks @averissimo!)

From NEWS.md in the release

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. 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-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). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.8 min · r-oldrel-windows-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 0.5.3

READMEYes · 516 wordsVignettes· In the repository, left out of the releaseNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5.3Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 6 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check (5 of them under a condition)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 57%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

12.6M

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #64 · ~34.4K/day · ~1M/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

900.3K30 days

2.9M90 days

12.6M1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on202.1K r2u8 autocran1.4M conda_forge20.4K c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

rstudio/fontawesome ↗Organization: rstudio

302Stars

38Forks

8Open issues

1Open PRs

10Releases

607Commits

9Commit identities

rfont-awesomesvg-icons

607 commits · Last activity 2024-11-16 · +0.3% stars, 30d · Default branch at 0.5.3.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.5.3 (checked 2026-10-22) · Discussions: 5 posts

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 95%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 14
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-10-13 · 2952026-09-25 · 302

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 7 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/rstudio/fontawesome on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Governance and community (2)

Code of conductContributing guide

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2024-11-16 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

Show all practicesHide 3 practices

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing fontawesome adds 5 packages (5 with compiled code, 1.2 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: rlang 766 KB, digest 231 KB, htmltools 132 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.3.0

Imports (2)

rlang htmltools

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

covr dplyr gt knitr testthat rsvg

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

25direct

3,554indirect

Imports 25

Suggested by 10

Show all 35 packagesHide all 35 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

Suggests, most downloaded first

bslib gt reactable leafem reactlog leaflet.extras2 shiny.tailwind shinyWGD plume unhcrdown

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Richard Iannone

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.0 (2021)

Winston Chang

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Christophe Dervieux

Contributor · added in 0.2.0

Dave Gandy

Contributor, Copyright holder

Font-Awesome font

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

Releases (10)

Pick two releases to compare their code metrics.

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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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2023-08-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.5.1
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2023-01-25 · diff ↗
0.4.0
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2022-07-20 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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2021-07-02 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.2.1
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2021-04-23 · diff ↗
0.2.0
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2021-03-28 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
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added 2 exports
fa_html_dependency, fa_metadata
0.1.0
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2021-02-22

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R
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

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Format

Iannone, R., Posit Software, PBC, Chang, W., Dervieux, C., & Gandy, D. (2024). fontawesome: Easily Work with 'Font Awesome' Icons (Version 0.5.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.fontawesome

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for fontawesome version 0.5.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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