README.md
In despair: Motivational Quotes and Shakespearean Bard–bits for Personal Projects

despair

Overview

despair is a package inspired by Shakespeare’s work and his well-known pessimism. It allows the user to create short, clever codes called bard–bits inspired by Shakespeare’s work and use daily demotivational quotes for personal use or to share with others.

You can install this package on CRAN

install.packages("despair")

You can also install the development version of this package through the devtools package.

devtools::install_github("jpmonteagudo28/despair")

There are three basic functions in the package: demotivate, motivate, and bard.bits. Each function will take a category input and an optional numeric or character seed for reproducible results.

library(despair)

#> Get info on package version 
 despair.message()
#> despair string generated by {despair} v.0.1.0.R version 4.4.1 (2024-06-14 ucrt).

demotivate()
#> "I’m not really good at advice. Can I interest you in a sarcastic comment?"
demotivate("science", seed = 123)
#> "No matter how hard you try, you’ll always be within one standard deviation of average."
demotivate("science", seed = "lanky poodle")
#> "Don't worry! There might be a socio-anthropoligical intepretation of your results"

motivate("lit")
#> "If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything. — Mark Twain"
motivate("religion", seed = 123)
#> "The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us. - C.S. Lewis"
motivate("religion", seed = "bewildered pooh")
#> "Really great things, when discussed by little men, can usually make such men grow big. - Augustine of Hippo"

bard.bits()
#> "brownish purple kite"
bard.bits("character", seed = 123)
#> "filthy duncan"
bard.bits("character", seed = "stinky chihuahua")
#> "lofty tranio"