fortunes (version 1.5-4)

fortunes: R Fortunes

Description

Read and print R fortunes.

Usage

fortune(which = NULL, fortunes.data = NULL, fixed = TRUE, showMatches = FALSE, author = character(), ...)
"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:

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)