Favicon in Shiny
If you're using a local runapp, then putting one in /www/favicon.ico should work, I believe.
You could also insert this somewhere in your UI:
tags$head(tags$link(rel="shortcut icon", href="URL-to-favicon"))
Joe Cheng
You can convert your favicon into base64 text (check favicon.cc website, they already do it) and write:
ui <- function(){tagList(
fluidPage(
titlePanel(
windowTitle = "Title that appears in the browser bar",
title = tags$head(tags$link(rel="icon",
href="data:image/x-icon;base64,AAABAAEAEBAQAAEAetc",
type="image/x-icon")
)),
sidebarLayout( sidebarPanel(