williamtang / cowsay

cowsay w/ more animals in R

cowsay

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
• You?

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

library("devtools")
install_github("sckott/cowsay")
library("cowsay")

say('time')

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 2013-10-10 17:11:53
 ------
    \   ^__^
     \  (oo)\ ________
        (__)\         )\ /\
             ||------w|
             ||      ||

say("ain't that some shit", "chicken")

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 ain't that some shit
 ------
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     \  
         _
       _/ }
      `>' \
      `|   \
       |   /'-.     .-.
        \'     ';`--' .'
         \'.    `'-./
          '.`-..-;`
            `;-..'
            _| _|
            /` /`

say("boo!", "ghost")

 -----
 boo!
 ------
    \
     \  
     .-.
    (o o)
    | O \
     \   \
      `~~~'

Vary type of output, default calls message()

say("hell no!")

 -----
 hell no!
 ------
    \   ^__^
     \  (oo)\ ________
        (__)\         )\ /\
             ||------w|
             ||      ||

say("hell no!", type="warning")

Warning message:
In say("hell no!", type = "warning") :
 -----
 hell no!
 ------
    \   ^__^
     \  (oo)\ ________
        (__)\         )\ /\
             ||------w|
             ||      ||

say("hell no!", type="string")

[1] "\n ----- \n hell no! \n ------ \n    \\   ^__^ \n     \\  (oo)\\ ________ \n        (__)\\         )\\ /\\ \n             ||------w|\n             ||      ||"

Catfacts!!!!

From the catfacts API

say("catfact", "cat")

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 The average cat food meal is the equivalent to about five mice.
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                .  : `. .
                : _   '
                ; *` _.   `*-._
                `-.-'          `-.
                  ;       `       `.
                  :.       .       \
                  .\  .   :   .-'   .
                  '  `+.;  ;  '      :
                  :  '  |    ;       ;-.
                  ; '   : :`-:     _.`* ;
               .*' /  .*' ; .*`- +'  `*'
               `*-*   `*-*  `*-*'

Random quote

From the iheartquotes API

say("iheart", "chicken")

  -----
 The pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy.-- D. H. Laurence
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     \
         _
       _/ }
      `>' \
      `|   \
       |   /'-.     .-.
        \'     ';`--' .'
         \'.    `'-./
          '.`-..-;`
            `;-..'
            _| _|
            /` /`

Long cat

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

say("it's caturday", "longcat")

 -----
 it's caturday
 ------
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     \
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    ( ﾟωﾟ)
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    Ｕ"Ｕ

Fish

say(by='fish')

 -----
 Hello world!
 ------
    \
     \
  ><((((º>  ><((((º>  ><((((º>  ><((((º>  ><((((º>

R fortunes

say('fortune','cat')

 -----
 Nothing exceeds like Excel.
 Roger Koenker
 in reply to a question why it takes so long to paste 19,000 lines of R code from Excel into R
 R-help
 October 2008
 ------
    \
     \
               \`*-.
                 )  _`-.
                .  : `. .
                : _   '
                ; *` _.   `*-._
                `-.-'          `-.
                  ;       `       `.
                  :.       .       \
                  .\  .   :   .-'   .
                  '  `+.;  ;  '      :
                  :  '  |    ;       ;-.
                  ; '   : :`-:     _.`* ;
               .*' /  .*' ; .*`- +'  `*'
               `*-*   `*-*  `*-*'