Emoji Search Table 😁

Quickly build a search table for emojis in R Markdown

If it’s not clear already, I enjoy using emoji (plural) in my blog posts. I feel they’re underused on internet blogs and they can add some much needed flavor to otherwise boring text.

Here’s a search table I quickly threw together for myself using the DT package and the emo package, with some Tidyverse. Super necessary for texting. Code included below.

Link to search table: https://databreadcrumbs.com/posts/2021-01-15-emoji-search/#htmlwidget-d756e8e85f77fdaecd37

#devtools::install_github("hadley/emo")
library(tidyverse)
library(DT)
library(emo)
b <- emo::jis %>% 
  select(name, emoji, group, subgroup, keywords, aliases) %>%
  mutate(keywords = map(keywords, toString)) %>% 
  mutate(aliases = map(aliases, toString)) %>%
  mutate(keywords = str_replace_all(keywords, "_", " ")) %>% 
  mutate(aliases = str_replace_all(aliases,"_", " "))
b %>% 
  datatable(rownames = FALSE, extensions = 'Responsive',
            caption = htmltools::tags$caption(
              style = 'caption-side: top; text-align: center;', 
              htmltools::em('Table 1: Emoji Search Table')),
            options = list(
              searchHighlight = TRUE,
              columnDefs = list(list(className = 'dt-center', 
                                     targets = 0:5)),
              lengthMenu = c(5, 10, 15, 20)
              ))