In richfitz/rainbowrite: Rainbow Coloured Output

knitr::opts_chunk$set(
  collapse = TRUE,
  comment = "#>"
)

rainbowrite::lol_hooks()

Basic use

For the most basic use, with defaults, just replace cat, message or print with calls to lolcat, lolmessage or lolprint, respectively:

x <- runif(30)
print(x)

becomes

rainbowrite::lolprint(x)

containing the same great data, but now with much more unicorn flavour.

Advanced use

If this is not enough control, you can interact directly with the rainbowrite::lol object. This has options that can tune the colour cycling. For example, to cycle colours faster than the default, and with a flatter angle (shifting so that rows cycle faster then columns)

lol_faster <- rainbowrite::lol$new(rate = 0.1, angle = pi / 10)

This can be passed into rainbowrite::lolprint and friends:

rainbowrite::lolprint(x, lol = lol_faster)

Or can be set as the default

lol_faster$set_as_default()
rainbowrite::lolprint(x)

Galaxy brain use

Some packages may not use lolcat, but we may want them to be more colourful.

For example, the cowsay package is great:

cowsay::say("I wish I was more colourful", "cow")

but could do with more colours. Use rainbowrite::lolify to create a copy of the target function where some of cat, message or print are replaced by their lol versions

lolcow <- rainbowrite::lolify(cowsay::say)

and use it as

lolcow("These colours mooove me!", "cow", type = "print")

richfitz/rainbowrite documentation built on March 1, 2021, 9:03 p.m.