knitr::opts_chunk$set( collapse = TRUE, comment = "#>" )
library(statquotes)
The quotes are stored in the data-raw/quotes_raw.txt
file. The script data-raw/convert_quotes_to_rda.R
can be used to read these quotes and save them to data/quotes.rda
, which is the main data file used in the package.
The quotes_raw.txt
file uses the following format for each quotation. Lines beginning with "%" are comments and ignored. Other lines contain a "key:value" pair. The key is used to identify the right column when building the quotes
data.frame:
% Comment quo: This is a quotation. src: Person or persons who said or wrote the quote. cit: Citation for the original quote. url: URL where the quote can be found (such as journal articles). tag: Comma-separated tags to categorize the quote. tex: TeX-formatted citation
Here is an example:
quo: A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him. src: Thomas Carlyle cit: Chartism, 1840, Chapter II, Statistics url: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Chartism/Chapter_2 tag: data visualization
The statquotes
package originally arose from a LaTeX file, that Michael Friendly used to collect interesting quotations related to statistics, data visualization, history, software and other topics. This was designed to be a collection that a person could search, then copy/paste an appropriate one into a working LaTeX document. The format of quotes was designed to use the LaTeX epigraph
package:
\epigraph{You can see a lot, just by looking.}{Yogi Berra} \epigraph{Every picture tells a story.}{Rod Stewart, 1971} \epigraph{A picture is worth a thousand words.}{F. Barnard, 1927}
Each quote has some text
and a source
attribution, and so could be displayed in a document something like
You can see a lot, just by looking. --- Yogi Berra
Some of the quotes have manually-added tags
to classify the quotes into groups. As many tags as desired can be added to a quote.
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