how to use my own icon in a shiny app menu item

[Matthew Cserhati]

Hello shinyers!

I made a 16x16 .ico file to use as my own icon in a menu item.

I have this code in my app:

menuItem("Inventory", tabName="tab3", icon=icon("users"),

How do I replace the generic 'users' icon with my own?

Thanks, Matthew

[Ehsan Zangeneh]

Hi Matthew

This is not exactly what you want but then it helps me to solve a similar issue, in this ( https://apsic.scicore.unibas.ch/ ) project in the sidebar as you can see there are some little png pics that are approximately 150*150 pixels.

On the server side I used an HTML-like code as follows:

output$imageBody <- renderImage({
  if (input$cancer == "Breast:Carcinoma") {
    return(list(
      src = "body/breast.png",
      contentType = "image/png",width = "100%", height = "100%",
      alt = "Breast"
    ))}
)}

It is free of icon size limitations and it is easy to convert pictures of other formats into png same size.

 

I hope it helps

BR

Ehsan