Get figlet font — figlet

Get a figlet font, returning a figlet_font object that can be used with figlet.

figlet_font(font, verbose = FALSE)

figlet_font_list()

Arguments

font	Path or name of the font to load
verbose	Logical, indicating if we should be verbose during font load.

Value

A figlet_font object for use with figlet

Details

This function tries to do the right thing with loading fonts:

if font is a figlet_font already, return it
if font is a known figlet_font in the internal font registry, then return it (faster than reading it again)
if font is a filename, then load the font and add it to the registry

Examples

# Load a font with a full path
rfiglet::figlet_font(system.file("fonts/standard.flf", package = "rfiglet"))
#> <figlet_font object: standard>
#>      _                  _               _
#>  ___| |_ __ _ _ __   __| | __ _ _ __ __| |
#> / __| __/ _` | '_ \ / _` |/ _` | '__/ _` |
#> \__ \ || (_| | | | | (_| | (_| | | | (_| |
#> |___/\__\__,_|_| |_|\__,_|\__,_|_|  \__,_|

# Load a previously seen font with a name
rfiglet::figlet_font("standard")
#> <figlet_font object: standard>
#>      _                  _               _
#>  ___| |_ __ _ _ __   __| | __ _ _ __ __| |
#> / __| __/ _` | '_ \ / _` |/ _` | '__/ _` |
#> \__ \ || (_| | | | | (_| | (_| | | | (_| |
#> |___/\__\__,_|_| |_|\__,_|\__,_|_|  \__,_|

# List known fonts
rfiglet::figlet_font_list()
#>  [1] "banner"   "big"      "block"    "bubble"   "digital"  "ivrit"   
#>  [7] "lean"     "mini"     "mnemonic" "script"   "shadow"   "slant"   
#> [13] "small"    "smscript" "smshadow" "smslant"  "standard" "term"