gaussfact: Display a Random Fact about Carl Friedrich Gauss

In gaussfacts: The Greatest Mathematician Since Antiquity

Description

Function to display a randomly chosen fact about Carl Friedrich Gauss

Usage

gaussfact(ind)

## S3 method for class 'gaussfact'
print(x, width = NULL, ...)

Arguments

ind	Optional index of a quote; if missing a random value is sampled
x	Default object for print method
width	Optional column width parameter
...	Other optional arguments

Details

This function displays a randomly chosen line from the included data set of of random ‘facts’ about Carl Friedrich Gauss. It is based on corpus curated by Mike Cavers via the http://gaussfacts.com site, and kindly made available.

Value

A character vector containing one randomly selected line from the included file. It is of class gaussfact for which an S3 print method will be invoked.

Author(s)

Dirk Eddelbuettel

See Also

fortune, rmsfact

Examples

  set.seed(123)
  gaussfact()

Example output

It's no secret Gauss was a child prodigy; his mother's womb inspired 
the divergence theorem. 

gaussfacts documentation built on May 1, 2019, 6:49 p.m.