getXKCD: Display your favourite XKCD comic in R

In RXKCD: Get XKCD comic from R

Description

This function fetches a XKCD comic strip (randomly or by number) and displays it on screen.

Usage

  getXKCD(which = "current", display = TRUE, html = FALSE,
    saveImg = FALSE)

Arguments

which	string: either "current" or "random"; or a number indicating the specific strip.
display	logical; TRUE (default) if you like to display the strip on the screen
html	logical; TRUE if you like to open the XKCD web page for the selected comic in your browser: if TRUE it sets display and saveImg arguments to FALSE. Default FALSE
saveImg	logical; TRUE if you want to save image in the current directory. Default FALSE

Value

a list containing the following fields:

• imgURL of the XKCD comic strip image (png)

• title Title of the XKCD comic strip

• month

• numNumber of the XKCD comic strip

• link

• year Year of publication

• safe_title

• transcript

• alt

• day

References

http://xkcd.com/license.html

Examples

library("RXKCD")
significant <- getXKCD(882, display=FALSE)

RXKCD documentation built on May 2, 2019, 5:39 p.m.