say {cowsay} | R Documentation |
Sling messages and warnings with flair
Description
Sling messages and warnings with flair
Usage
say(
what = "Hello world!",
by = "cow",
type = NULL,
what_color = NULL,
by_color = what_color,
length = 18,
fortune = NULL,
width = 60,
...
)
think(
what = "Hello world!",
by = "cow",
type = NULL,
what_color = NULL,
by_color = what_color,
length = 18,
fortune = NULL,
width = 60,
...
)
Arguments
what |
(character) What do you want to say? See Details. |
by |
(character) Type of thing, one of cow, chicken, chuck,
clippy, poop, bigcat, ant, pumpkin, ghost, spider, rabbit, pig,
snowman, frog, hypnotoad, shortcat, longcat, fish, signbunny,
facecat, behindcat, stretchycat, anxiouscat, longtailcat, cat,
trilobite, shark, buffalo, grumpycat, smallcat, yoda, mushroom,
endlesshorse, bat, bat2, turkey, monkey, daemon, egret, duckling,
duck, owl, squirrel, squirrel2, goldfish, alligator, stegosaurus,
whale, wolf, or rms for Richard Stallman.
Alternatively, use "random" to have your message spoken by a random
character.
We use |
type |
(character) One of message (default), warning, print (default in non-interactive mode), or string (returns string). If run in non-interactive mode default type is print, so that output goes to stdout rather than stderr, where messages and warnings go. |
what_color |
(character or crayon function) One or more
|
by_color |
(character or crayon function) One or more
|
length |
(integer) Length of longcat. Ignored if other animals used. |
fortune |
An integer (or number that can be coerced
to integer) specifying a fortune from the |
width |
(integer/numeric) width of each line. default: 60 |
... |
Further args passed on to |
what
You can put in any phrase you like to the what
parameter, OR you
can type in one of a few special phrases that do particular things.
They are:
"catfact": A random cat fact from https://catfact.ninja
"fortune": A random quote from an R coder, from fortunes library
"time": Print the current time
"rms": Prints a random 'fact' about Richard Stallman from the
rmsfact::rmsfact()
package. Best paired withby = "rms"
.
by
Note that if you choose by='hypnotoad'
the quote is forced to be,
as you could imagine, 'All Glory to the HYPNO TOAD!'. For reference see
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hypnotoad
signbunny: It's not for sure known who invented signbunny, but this article http://www.vox.com/2014/9/18/6331753/sign-bunny-meme-explained thinks they found the first use in this tweet: https://twitter.com/wei_bluebear/status/329101645780770817
trilobite: from http://www.retrojunkie.com/asciiart/animals/dinos.htm (site down though)
Note to Windows users: there are some animals (shortcat, longcat, fish, signbunny, stretchycat, anxiouscat, longtailcat, grumpycat, mushroom) that are not available because they use non-ASCII characters that don't display properly in R on Windows.
Examples
say()
say("what")
say("time")
say("who you callin chicken", "chicken")
say("ain't that some shit", "poop")
say("icanhazpdf?", "cat")
say("boo!", "pumpkin")
say("hot diggity", "frog")
# Vary type of output, default calls message()
say("hell no!")
say("hell no!", type = "warning")
say("hell no!", type = "string")
# The hypnotoad
say(by = "hypnotoad")
# Trilobite
say(by = "trilobite")
# Shark
say("Q: What do you call a solitary shark\nA: A lone shark", by = "shark")
# Buffalo
say("Q: What do you call a single buffalo?\nA: A buffalonely", by = "buffalo")
# Using fortunes
library(fortunes)
say(what = "fortune")
## you don't have to pass anything to the `what` parameter if `fortune` is
## not null
say("fortune", "spider")
say("fortune", "facecat")
say("fortune", "behindcat")
say("fortune", "smallcat")
say("fortune", "monkey")
say("fortune", "egret")
say(fortune = 10)
say(fortune = 100)
say(fortune = "whatever")
say(fortune = 7)
say(fortune = 45)
# Clippy
say(fortune = 59, by = "clippy")
library(rmsfact)
say("rms", "rms")
# Using the catfacts API
library(jsonlite)
say("catfact", "cat")