statquote: Display a randomly chosen statistical quote.
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statquote

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Display a randomly chosen statistical quote.

Description

Display a randomly chosen statistical quote.

Usage

statquote(ind = NULL, pattern = NULL, tag = NULL, source = NULL, topic = NULL)

## S3 method for class 'statquote'
print(x, cite = TRUE, width = NULL, ...)

## S3 method for class 'statquote'
as.data.frame(x, row.names = NULL, optional = FALSE, ...)

Arguments

`ind`	Integer or character. If 'ind' is missing, a random quote is chosen from all quotations. If 'ind' is specified and is an integer, return the ind^th quote. If 'ind' is specified and is character, use it as the 'pattern'.
`pattern`	Character string. Quotes are subset to to those which match the pattern in the quote text.
`tag`	Character string. Quotes are subset to those matching the specified tag.
`source`	Character string. Quotes are subset to those matching the specified source (person).
`topic`	Deprecated. Use 'tag' instead. Only kept for backward compatability.
`x`	object of class `'statquote'`
`cite`	logical; should the `cite` field be printed?
`width`	Optional print width parameter
`...`	Other optional arguments, unused here
`row.names`	see `as.data.frame`
`optional`	see `as.data.frame`

Value

A character vector containing one quote. It is of class statquote for which an S3 print method will be invoked, and for which other methods are available.

Examples

set.seed(1234)
statquote()
statquote(10)
statquote("boggled")
statquote(pattern="boggled")
statquote(source="Yates")
statquote(tag="anova")
print.data.frame(statquote(302)) # All information

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