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statquotes (version 0.3.3)

Quotes on Statistics, Data Visualization and Science

Description

Generates a random quotation from a database of quotes on topics in statistics, data visualization and science. Other functions allow searching the quotes database by key term tags, or authors or creating a word cloud. The output is designed to be suitable for use at the console, in Rmarkdown and LaTeX.

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install.packages('statquotes')

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422

Version

0.3.3

License

GPL (>= 2)

Issues

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Stars

16

Forks

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Maintainer

Michael Friendly

Last Published

July 23rd, 2025

Functions in statquotes (0.3.3)

quote_tags

List the tags of the quotes database
find_duplicate_quotes

Check for duplicate quotes
as.latex

Coerces statquote objects to strings suitable for LaTeX
statquote

Display a randomly chosen statistical quote.
read_quotes_raw

Parse quotes from the file quotes_raw.txt.
quote_cloud

Generate a word cloud based upon quote database
as.markdown

Function to transform statquote objects to strings suitable for markdown
search_quotes

Search the quote database for a string or regex pattern
quotes

Quotes on statistics, data visualization and science