ggshroom

Tiny companion to ggimage for plotting fungal and fungus-like icons in ggplot2.

ggshroom depends on ggimage internally and wraps ggimage::geom_image() with a simple fungus-friendly interface.

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Installation

if (!requireNamespace("devtools", quietly = TRUE)) {
  install.packages("devtools")
}

devtools::install_github("gzahn/ggshroom")

ggimage will be installed automatically as a package dependency.

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Citation

If you use ggshroom in a publication or public project and feel like citing it:

Example usage

library(ggplot2)
library(ggshroom)
# ggshroom uses ggimage::geom_image() under the hood

set.seed(1)

df <- data.frame(
  x = rnorm(50),
  y = rnorm(50),
  shroom = sample(list_shrooms(), 50, replace = TRUE)
)

ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
  geom_shroom(aes(image = shroom), size = 0.08) +
  theme_minimal()

You can also use a single fixed icon:

ggplot(df, aes(x, y)) +
  geom_shroom(image = "yeastbud", size = 0.08) +
  theme_minimal()

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Available icons

Use list_shrooms() to see the bundled icon names, or browse the gallery below.

Name	Icon
amanita
amf
black
blue
brown
chicken
chytrid
enoki
fusarium
morel
neurospora
physarum
purple
rhizopus
schizo
shiitake
white
yeast1
yeastbud