/cowsay

cowsay w/ more animals in R

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cowsay

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What is this?

If you are familiar with cowsay on the cli, then you know what this is, but for R. If not, read below. Why? Why not?

Contributors

  • Scott Chamberlain
  • Tyler Rinker
  • Thomas Leeper
  • Noam Ross
  • Rich FitzJohn
  • Kiyoko Gotanda

That's right, it takes 6 people to make cowsay - it's that hard.

Dependencies:

  • fortunes
  • RJSONIO

Quick watch start

Asciicast: https://asciinema.org/a/7745

Quick start

install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("sckott/cowsay")
library("cowsay")
say('time')
## 
##  -------------- 
## 2014-09-18 08:16:15 
##  --------------
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##            \| | |_|/\
##       jgs  //_// ___/
##                \_)
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say("ain't that some shit", "chicken")
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## 
##  ----- 
##  ain't that some shit 
##  ------ 
##     \   
##      \
##          _
##        _/ }
##       `>' \
##       `|   \
##        |   /'-.     .-.
##         \'     ';`--' .'
##          \'.    `'-./
##           '.`-..-;`
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say("boo!", "ghost")
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## 
##  ----- 
##  boo! 
##  ------ 
##     \   
##      \
##      .-.
##     (o o)
##     | O \
##      \   \
##       `~~~'
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Vary type of output, default calls message()

say("hell no!")
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##  -------------- 
## hell no! 
##  --------------
##     \
##       \
##         \
##             |\___/|
##           ==) ^Y^ (==
##             \  ^  /
##              )=*=(
##             /     \
##             |     |
##            /| | | |\
##            \| | |_|/\
##       jgs  //_// ___/
##                \_)
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say("hell no!", type="warning")
## Warning: 
##  -------------- 
## hell no! 
##  --------------
##     \
##       \
##         \
##             |\___/|
##           ==) ^Y^ (==
##             \  ^  /
##              )=*=(
##             /     \
##             |     |
##            /| | | |\
##            \| | |_|/\
##       jgs  //_// ___/
##                \_)
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say("hell no!", type="string")
## [1] "\n -------------- \nhell no! \n --------------\n    \\\n      \\\n        \\\n            |\\___/|\n          ==) ^Y^ (==\n            \\  ^  /\n             )=*=(\n            /     \\\n            |     |\n           /| | | |\\\n           \\| | |_|/\\\n      jgs  //_// ___/\n               \\_)\n  "

Catfacts!!!!

From the catfacts API

say("catfact", "cat")
## 
##  -------------- 
## Tylenol and chocolate are both poisionous to cats. 
##  --------------
##     \
##       \
##         \
##             |\___/|
##           ==) ^Y^ (==
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##              )=*=(
##             /     \
##             |     |
##            /| | | |\
##            \| | |_|/\
##       jgs  //_// ___/
##                \_)
##

Random quote

From the iheartquotes API

say("iheart", "chicken")
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## 
##  ----- 
##  I do not know myself and God forbid that I should.-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 
##  ------ 
##     \   
##      \
##          _
##        _/ }
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##         \'     ';`--' .'
##          \'.    `'-./
##           '.`-..-;`
##             `;-..'
##             _| _|
##             /` /`
##

Long cat

From the a Boing Boing tweet on 2014-05-10

say("it's caturday", "longcat")
## 
## 
##  ----- 
##  it's caturday 
##  ------ 
##     \   
##      \
##     .ﾊ,,ﾊ
##     ( ﾟωﾟ)
##     |つ  つ
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##     U " U
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Bunny Holding a sign

say(by='signbunny')
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##  -------------- 
## Hello world! 
##  --------------
## (\__/) ||
## (•ㅅ•) ||
## /   づ
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Fish

say(by='fish')
## 
## 
##  ----- 
##  Hello world! 
##  ------ 
##     \   
##      \
##   ><((((º>  ><((((º>  ><((((º>  ><((((º>  ><((((º>
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R fortunes

say('fortune','cat')
## 
##  -------------- 
## If 'fools rush in where angels fear to tread', then Bayesians 'jump' in where frequentists fear to 'step'.
##  Charles C. Berry
##  about Bayesian model selection as an alternative to stepwise regression
##  R-help
##  November 2009 
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##           ==) ^Y^ (==
##             \  ^  /
##              )=*=(
##             /     \
##             |     |
##            /| | | |\
##            \| | |_|/\
##       jgs  //_// ___/
##                \_)
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