Font Awesome in R, Loaded But Not Found by Waffle

Font Awesome in R, loaded but not found by waffle

If you are going to use the font-awesome glyphs in ggplot2 plots then you can use the wonderful emojifont package. No need to add the font manually yourself.

library("emojifont")
library("waffle")
waffle(c(50, 30, 15, 5), rows = 5, use_glyph = "music", glyph_size = 4)

That produces the graph you are after:

Sample Image

Update: Since you have installed the otf fonts and not the ttf fonts that might be the cause of your problems. The load.fontawesome() function in the emojifontpackage has a default argument:

load.fontawesome(font = "fontawesome-webfont.ttf")

You could try to 1) either install the ttf version of the fonts or 2) call

load.fontawesome(font = "fontawesome-webfont.otf")

before plotting (although I'm not sure the latter will work). Worth a try though.

Waffle Chart - FontAwesome issue

I also struggled to get font awesome to work with waffle. However, waffle plots are pretty straighforward to make in ggplot, so you could create your own waffle function that does the same thing using emojifont and extrafont

library(emojifont)
library(extrafont)
library(ggplot2)

my_waffle <- function(x, rows = 5, use_glyph = 'square', glyph_size = 6,
                      title = 'Waffle chart') {
  
  len <- sum(x)
  waffles <- seq(len) - 1
  nms <- if(is.null(names(x))) seq_along(x) else names(x)
  df <- data.frame(xvals = waffles %/% rows,
                   yvals = 1 - (waffles %% rows),
                   fill = factor(rep(nms, times = x)))
  
  ggplot(df, aes(xvals, yvals, color = fill)) +
    geom_text(label = fontawesome(paste('fa', use_glyph, sep = '-')), 
              family = 'fontawesome-webfont', size = glyph_size) +
    coord_equal(expand = TRUE) +
    lims(x  = c(min(df$xvals) - 1, max(df$xvals) + 1),
         y  = c(min(df$yvals) - 1, max(df$yvals) + 1)) + 
    theme_void(base_size = 16) +
    labs(title = title, color = NULL) +
    theme(plot.title = element_text(),
          plot.margin = margin(10, 10, 10, 10)) 
}

Now you can call my_waffle instead of waffle with the same arguments and get the desired result:

my_waffle(c(50, 30, 15, 5), rows = 5, use_glyph = "child", glyph_size = 6, 
       title = "Look I made an infographic using R!")

Sample Image

and

my_waffle(c(gasoline = 50, diesel = 30, hybrid = 15, electric = 5), 
          rows = 5, use_glyph = "car",
          glyph_size = 6, 
          title = "Look I made an infographic using R!")

Sample Image

Waffle & font family not found in Windows font database

So the classic have you unplugged it and plugged it back in approach worked...I restarted RStudio and now it works.

Font awesome npm not working (fonts give a 404)

Fixed this with:

mix.copy(
    'node_modules/@fortawesome/fontawesome-pro/webfonts',
    'public/webfonts'
);

Meteor and font-awesome package not working as intended

I tried that HTML snippet in one of my projects using the official (fortawesome-fontawesome) package and had no issues. There are a slew of potential reasons this could be the case, my first recommendation would be to inspect the element using chrome and look at the CSS. Make sure there's no overriding going on from other CSS files/libraries/packages you may have installed.

Additionally, check your browser console to see if any assets are failing to load.

If you can't seem to find anything out of the ordinary, remove the package meteor remove fortawesome:fontawesome, and add it manually by creating an index.html file in your project and adding this to it:

<head>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.3.0/css/font-awesome.min.css" type="text/css">
</head>

Font Awesome in R, Loaded But Not Found by Waffle