fortunes: R Fortunes

In fortunes: R Fortunes

Description

Read and print R fortunes.

Usage

fortune(which = NULL, fortunes.data = NULL, fixed = TRUE,
        showMatches = FALSE, author = character(), ...)
## S3 method for class 'fortune'
print(x, width = NULL, ...)
read.fortunes(file = NULL)

Arguments

which	an integer specifying the row number of fortunes.data. Alternatively which can be a character and grep is used to try to find a suitable row.
fortunes.data	data frame containing a fortune in each row. By default the fortune data from the fortunes package are used.
fixed	logical passed to grep if which is a character, indicating if it should work (if TRUE, as by default) with a simple character string or (if FALSE) with regular expressions.
showMatches	if which is character, a logical indicating if fortune() should print all the row numbers of fortunes.data which match the grep search.
author	a character string to match (via grep) to the "authors" column of fortunes.data.
...	potential further arguments passed to grep.
x	an object of class "fortune", usually a single row from fortunes.data.
width	integer specifying the character width. By default getOption("width") is used.
file	a character string giving a fortune database in csv format (in UTF-8 encoding). By default all csv files in the data directory of the fortune package are used.

Value

fortune() returns an object of class "fortune" which is a row from a data frame of fortunes (like those read in from read.fortunes).

read.fortunes() returns a data frame of fortunes, each row contains:

quote	the quote, main part of the fortune,
author	the author of the quote,
context	the context in which it was quoted (if available, otherwise NA),
source	where it was quoted (if available, otherwise NA),
date	when it was quoted (if available, otherwise NA).

Examples

fortune() # a random one
fortune("Ripley") # a random one from those with 'Ripley'
fortune(author = "Ripley") # a random one from those by 'Ripley'
fortune(17)

fortune("parse", showMatches = TRUE) # -> shows at least 5 matches
fortune("parse.*answer") # nothing found but...
fortune("parse.*answer", fixed = FALSE) # ...this works


## The first three "all together"   ('setNames()' requires at least R 3.0.0):
lapply(setNames(, c(38, 106, 129)), fortune)

fortunes documentation built on May 2, 2019, 3:42 a.m.