In Lingtax/conspirator: Generates a Pseudo-Random Conspiracy Theory

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Conspirator

conspirator is a dumb little r package made up by Mathew during a conversation with Matt Williams, Stephen Hill, and Mat Marques about what is and is not a conspiracy.

It's generally agreed that conspiracy theories must have 3 properties: 1. Multiple actors plotting together (if it's just one person, it's not a conspiracy)

1. Secrecy (if there's open data, it's not a conspiracy)
2. Malevolence/harmful goals (if you're plotting to buy mum a present, it's not a conspiracy)

conspirator uses these parameters to generate a random conspiracy theory for you.

Installation

conspirator is not on CRAN, install from github via:

remotes::install_github("Lingtax/conspirator")

Use

Generate a conspiracy theory using the conspire function. By default, the function will return a conspiracy from its inbuilt dictionaries - at the time of writing, this should generate 9333 unique conspiracy theories.

library(conspirator)
conspire()

You can now also provide the conspire function with lists or character vectors to control the outputs either partially or in full.

agents <- list("Bin chickens are", "Brush-tailed possums are")
adverbs <- c("loudly", "brazenly")
actions <- "tipping over my bird bath."

conspire(agent = agents)
conspire(agent = agents, adverb = adverbs, action = actions)

Also, inspired by Tim Graham, the package now makes bios for twitter bot accounts, using the bot_maker() function

bot_maker()

Code of Conduct

Please note that the conspirator project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms. In particular, constributors are encouraged to be mindful of perpetuating stigmatising beliefs in contributing to the conspiracy dictionaries.

Lingtax/conspirator documentation built on Oct. 30, 2021, 11:23 p.m.