Using custom icon - not part in Font-Awesome/Glyphicons?

[Lalas]

In shiny dashboard, Is it possible to use one's own icon with the value/info box? I have tried:

valueBox(10 * 2, "New Orders", icon = list(iconUrl="test_green.png"))

as suggested in the "Shiny-Leaflet custom marker icons" discussion, but i got the following error:

Error in tagAssert(icon, type = "i") : 

  Expected an object with class 'shiny.tag'.

 

the icon parameters uses/call the icon function in shiny package, so I guess another way of asking the same question: Is it possible to use custom (one own) icons with the icons function in shiny, and if so, how?

Thanks

[Winston Chang]

Sorry, using a PNG image won't work for a valueBox. The icons used in shinydashboard are characters from special fonts; this is different from the PNG icons used in Leaflet.

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[Lalas]

Excuse my poor understanding of this topic. My question is not specific to png, but any other source of icons not part of Font-Awesome/Glyphicons. 

For example, can i use an icon (font) from available at http://fontastic.me/ ? Sorry for giving you the impression that it had to be png.

Thanks

[Max Moro]

I think you cannot use any image, because the icon command is calling a special set of fonts ( Font-Awesome/Glyphicons).It is  kind of the Wingdings font in windows environment..

Another option you may have is using the html command with the img tag

example:

HTML('<img src="smiley.gif" alt="Smiley face" height="42" width="42">')

Max

[Lalas]

Thanks for the clarification :)