geom_icon: Icons
In PatrickRobotham/ggicons: Plots with custom icons

The icon geom, like the point geom, is used to create scatterplots. Icons are specified by filepaths into an image file.

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geom_icon(mapping = NULL, data = NULL, stat = "identity",
  position = "identity", na.rm = FALSE, show.legend = NA,
  inherit.aes = TRUE, ...)

library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)
data(tidyverse_downloads)

downloads_with_icon <- tidyverse_downloads %>%
   mutate(file_path = system.file("icons",paste0(package,".png"),package = "ggicons"))
 ggplot(downloads_with_icon, aes(x = Jan2017, y = change_percentage, file_path = file_path)) +
 geom_icon()