bioicons: Bioicons icons

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Bioicons icons

Description

Bioicons is a free library of open source icons for scientific illustrations using vector graphics software such as Inkscape or Adobe Illustrator.

Usage

download_bioicons()

bioicons(name, category = NULL)

Arguments

name

Name of the icon.

category

The icon's category, one of "Animals", "Blood_immunology", "Cell_lines", "Cell_membrane", "Chemistry", "Chemo-_and_Bioinformatics", "General_items", "Genetics", "Human_physiology", "Intracellular_components" , "Lab_apparatus", "Machine_Learning", "Microbiology", "Nucleic_Acids", "Oncology", "Parasites", "Receptor_channels", "Safety_symbols", "Scientific_graphs", "Tissues", or "Viruses". If NULL, it will default to the first available icon with this name.

Value

download_bioicons() invisibly returns the bioicons icon set after downloading and installing its SVG files locally.

bioicons(name, category) returns an icons vector (an SVG tag) for the requested icon.

License

Each Bioicons icon is contributed under a license chosen by its author - commonly CC-0, MIT, CC-BY-SA, or BSD. The license is baked into the icon's identifier (use icon_label() to recover it, e.g. "bioicons$CC-0$General_items$AuthorName$name"), and is also listed alongside each icon at https://bioicons.com/. Check, and where required credit, the individual icon's license before reuse.

See Also

https://bioicons.com/

icons documentation built on Sept. 3, 2026, 5:10 p.m.