rmsfact: Amazing Random Facts About the World's Greatest Hacker

Motivation

The excellent GNU Octave contains a function fact. It is contributed by Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso, and draws on the (now defunct) site stallmanfacts.com (accessible via archive.org) for a collection of random 'facts' about Richard M. Stallman. Each call of fact displays another (randomly chosen) fact.

R was lacking such a key piece of technology, and hence this package was created to fill a glaring void.

Example

> library(rmsfact)                  # load the package
> set.seed(123)                     # so that this is predictable
> rmsfact()
Richard Stallman can see Russia from his house.
> rmsfact("power")
Richard Stallman wrote a program so powerful it knows the question to 42. 
Richard Stallman can violate the GPL. In a vulgar display of power, he once did 
so with the Emacs source code, but he undid the violation before most people 
noticed. 
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Package Status

Complete and functional, no dependencies, passes tests.

Installation

The package is on CRAN and can be installed via a standard

R> install.packages("rmsfact")

See Also

The gaussfacts (also on CRAN) and myman packages also delivers a delightful set to draw from just like this package does.

Author

Dirk Eddelbuettel

License

GPL-3