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Shell command to install a font from 'Google Fonts'

Source: R/fonts.R
install_gfont_script.Rd

Create a string containing a system command to execute so that the font from 'Google Fonts' is installed on the system. Its execution may require root permissions, in dockerfile for example.

Usage

install_gfont_script(
  family = "Open Sans",
  subset = c("latin", "latin-ext"),
  platform = c("debian", "windows", "macos"),
  file = NULL
)

Arguments

family

family name of a 'Google Fonts', for example, "Open Sans", "Roboto", "Fira Code" or "Fira Sans Condensed". Complete list is available with the following command:

gfonts::get_all_fonts()$family |>
  unlist() |>
  unique() |>
  sort()

subset

font subset, a character vector, it defaults to only "latin" and "latin-ext" and can contains values such as "greek", "emoji", "chinese-traditional",

Run the following code to get a complete list:

gfonts::get_all_fonts()$subsets |> unlist() |> unique() |> sort()

platform

"debian" and "windows" and "macos" are supported.

file

script file to generate, optional. If the parameter is specified, a file will be generated ready for execution. If the platform is Windows, administration rights are required to run the script.

Value

the 'shell' or 'PowerShell' command as a string

Details

It allows users to use fonts from 'Google Fonts' in an HTML page generated by 'shiny' or 'R Markdown'. At the first request, the font files will be downloaded and stored in a cache on the user's machine, thus avoiding many useless downloads or allowing to work with these fonts afterwards without an Internet connection, in a docker image for example. See fonts_cache_dir().

The server delivering the font files should not be too busy. That's why a one second pause is added after each download to respect the server's limits. This time can be set with the option GFONTS_DOWNLOAD_SLEEPTIME which must be a number of seconds.

See also

Other functions for font management: addGFontHtmlDependency(), fonts_cache_dir(), gfontHtmlDependency(), installed_gfonts(), liberationsansHtmlDependency(), register_gfont(), register_liberationsans()

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
if (check_gfonts()) {
  dummy_setup()
  install_gfont_script(family = "Roboto", platform = "macos")
}
} # }