NEWS

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icons 0.2.0

This release completely reimplements the package to use SVG icons. This is much better for smaller file sizes, portability and icon customisation.

Icon libraries are no longer provided within the package, and instead must be downloaded using the download_*() functions. This allows you to update and choose the version of your icon libraries without needing changes to the packages.

The package name is now also "icons", due to a package name conflict. Please use the available::available() function when choosing package names - and I should submit packages to CRAN faster! (#48).

This release causes several breaking changes, if you have used the older version of the package you should carefully read these changes.

New icon sets

• Added the simple_icons() icon set (https://github.com/simple-icons/simple-icons/).
• Added the google_material() icon set (https://github.com/google/material-design-icons/).
• Added the octicons() icon set (https://github.com/primer/octicons).

Breaking changes

• Icons are no longer included directly in the package, and will require downloading before use. Use the download_*() functions to download an icon library you want to use.
• The short names (fa, ii, etc.) have been replaced with longer, more informative names (fontawesome, ionicons, etc.).
• Animations of icons is no longer supported (this functionality will be made possible in a new package specific to CSS animations).
• The iconset_icon interface for accessing the icon icon from the iconset icon set has been replaced with iconset$icon.
• The iconset() interface for accessing the icons is now specific to each icon library.

Improvements

• Icons now use SVG files instead of font files. This substantially reduces the output file's size and allows more flexibility and integration with other libraries in the future.
• Icon sets can now be updated at any time without updating the package. The download_*() helpers can be used to install icon libraries.
• Custom icon sets can be created from a folder of SVG files.
• Icons can now be used with word_document and github_document output formats (#33).
• Improved detection of output format types to work with more rmarkdown extensions.

Bug fixes

• Icons now work as expected in titles (#7).
• Icons now work alongside emojis (#25).

icons 0.1.0

• First release.
• Allows font icons to be easily included in R Markdown documents.
• Provides support for Font Awesome, Academicons, and Ionicons icon libraries.
• Some control options for the icons are possible, including icon colour, rotation, size and animations.