Various handy symbols to use in a command line UI

Usage

symbol

Format

A named list, see names(symbol) for all sign names.

Details

On Windows they have a fallback to less fancy symbols.

Examples

cat(symbol$check, " SUCCESS\n", symbol$cross, " FAILURE\n", sep="")
#>  SUCCESS
#> ✖ FAILURE

## All symbols
cat(paste(format(names(symbol), width=20),
  unlist(symbol)), sep = "\n")
#> tick                 ✔
#> cross                ✖
#> star                 ★
#> square               ▇
#> square_small         ◻
#> square_small_filled  ◼
#> circle               ◯
#> circle_filled        ◉
#> circle_dotted        ◌
#> circle_double        ◎
#> circle_circle        ⓞ
#> circle_cross         ⓧ
#> circle_pipe          Ⓘ
#> circle_question_mark ?⃝
#> bullet               ●
#> dot                  ․
#> line                 ─
#> double_line          ═
#> ellipsis             …
#> pointer              ❯
#> info                 ℹ
#> warning              ⚠
#> menu                 ☰
#> smiley               ☺
#> mustache             ෴
#> heart                ♥
#> arrow_up             ↑
#> arrow_down           ↓
#> arrow_left           ←
#> arrow_right          →
#> radio_on             ◉
#> radio_off            ◯
#> checkbox_on          ☒
#> checkbox_off         ☐
#> checkbox_circle_on   ⓧ
#> checkbox_circle_off  Ⓘ
#> fancy_question_mark  ❓
#> neq                  ≠
#> geq                  ≥
#> leq                  ≤
#> upper_block_1        ▔
#> upper_block_4        ▀
#> lower_block_1        ▁
#> lower_block_2        ▂
#> lower_block_3        ▃
#> lower_block_4        ▄
#> lower_block_5        ▅
#> lower_block_6        ▆
#> lower_block_7        ▇
#> lower_block_8        █
#> full_block           █