In sckott/cowsay: Messages, Warnings, Strings with Ascii Animals

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cowsay makes it easy to print messages, warnings, or character strings with various animals and other creatures.

Installation

Stable version from CRAN

install.packages("cowsay")

or dev version from GitHub

# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("sckott/cowsay")

library(cowsay)

The animals

The animals, and other ascii creatures, are all in a single named character vector that is exported from the package. Thus, you can access each animal yourself, and do whatever you want with it.

As of this writing, there are r length(animals) animals.

The names of the animals:

sort(names(animals))

For example, access the cow

cow <- animal_fetch('cow')
cat(cow)

Say something

We expose the function say() in this package, which you can use to envoke any animal in the package, and make it say whatever you want. Some examples:

say("why did the chicken cross the road", "chicken")

say("boo!", "ghost")

say("nope, don't do that", type = "warning")

There's the special time, that will print out the time

say("time")

It's how you say it

You can use say() and give back a string, message, or warning

Message

say("hello world", by = "cow")

Warning

say("hello world", by = "cow", type = "warning")

String

say("hello world", by = "cow", type = "string")

sckott/cowsay documentation built on April 11, 2025, 4:40 p.m.