________ / \ / he \ \ xt / \________/ 

Hex stickers… but text.

Bye, hex stickers. Inspired by artistry in Yihui’s {litedown} and then Charlie’s {secretbase}.

The package is a GitHub exclusive for now.

install.packages("pak") # if not yet installed pak::pak("matt-dray/hext")

Quality not guaranteed.

You can add text (text_*) and align it (align_*) for each of your hex’s four writable lines (*_1 to *_4). You cannot exceed the allotted character width inside the hex border.

Here’s the simple logo for this package:

hext::hext( # You can adjust placement with spaces text_2 = "he ", text_3 = " xt" ) # ________ # / \ # / he \ # \ xt / # \________/

Alignment defaults to centre, but you can change it:

# fmt: skip hext::hext( "hello", "this", "is", "hext", "left", "right", "centre", "left" ) # ________ # /hello \ # / this\ # \ is / # \hext____/

Rendering is hard. Platforms and tools will vary in how they present the same logo.

In particular, your kilometreage may vary with Unicode characters, including emojis.

hext::hext( "😀", "✋👔🤚", "👖", "👟👟" ) # ________ # / 😀 \ # / ✋👔🤚 \ # \ 👖 / # \__👟👟__/

hext() defaults to assessing the display width of text. In the spirit of fudging it, use count_type = "chars" to count characters instead.

ASCII art is encouraged. Here is a cat.

hext_cat <- hext::hext( r"{/\__/\}", # escape with raw strings "={ o x o}=", "l( u u )", "_b___b", print = FALSE # return char vector invisibly ) hext_cat |> cat() # ________ # / /\__/\ \ # /={ o x o}=\ # \l( u u ) / # \__b___b_/

You may be aware of the the Stickers Standard.

For the purposes of {hext}, the standard is:

0. 2 spaces, 8 underscores.
1. 1 space, 1 slash, 8 spaces, 1 backslash.
2. 1 slash, 10 spaces, 1 backslash.
3. 1 backslash, 10 spaces, 1 slash.
4. 1 space, 1 backslash, 8 underscores, 1 slash.

If you’re interested in jpegs or whatever, see:

• {hexSticker} by Guangchang Yu
• hexmake by Colin Fay
• {bunny} by Dmytro Perepolkin
• {gex} by Matt Dray (disclaimer: that’s my name)