Shorten package name

[coatless]

Anyway the package name could be shorten from fontawesome to fa?

[rich-iannone]

I don’t know, I already have a bunch of packages with very short names (e.g., gt, ttt, etc.)... Joking aside, I think what you want is fa::fa(“icon”). However I think we went with fontawesome because fa wasn’t very recognizable as being FontAwesome.

[coatless]

Right you are, I'm looking for namespace prefixing.

Not sure I agree with fa not being recognizable as each icon code is prefixed by fa. For example, the address-book icon in FontAwesome 5 is given with:

<i class="far fa-address-book"></i>

If the worry is more about naming the core functionality after the package name, why not:

fa::icon("address-book")

Generally, any RStudio package should have improved visibility compared to traditional packages. So, I think even with name of fa that the package should be noticed.

Regardless, this is a very useful package. Thanks for making it!

[rich-iannone]

@coatless I've had a discussion internally here and we've decided to stick with the slightly longer package name of fontawesome.

I am hopeful that we can find other ways to generally shorten the amount of typing required in the function call itself.

[coatless]

@rich-iannone thanks for holding another conversation and the update!