Meme Generation in R

According to Wikipedia:

An Internet meme (/'mi?m/ meem) is an activity, concept, catchphrase or piece of media which spreads, often as mimicry, from person to person via the Internet.

meme is an R package that connects with several online image generators to create internet memes, which can then be loaded into R, plotted, and saved locally.

Installation

At some point meme will be available on CRAN and installed from within R from your favorite CRAN mirror:

install.packages("meme")

The latest development version, available here, can be installed directly using Hadley Wickham's devtools package:

if(!require("devtools")) install.packages("devtools")
library("devtools")
install_github("leeper/meme")

Examples

Here are some simple examples using the package and the default memecaptain generator. To get started, you can grab some image templates from one of the meme generator sites. We'll use memecaptain because it doesn't require a username and password.

library("meme")
templates <- get_templates("memecaptain")

You can use the plot.meme_template method to plot all templates from a given site to help you figure out which one you want to use. Here's some code to do it:

par( mfrow = n2mfrow(length(templates)), mar=rep(0,4), mgp=rep(0,3))
invisible(lapply(templates, plot))

Here are some example memes. These could probably be better, so pull requests are welcome!

plot(allthethings <- create_meme(templates[[2]], "Code", "all the things!"))

plot(simply <- create_meme(templates[[10]], "One does not simply", "reshape data from wide to long"))

plot(yuno <- create_meme(templates[[55]], "R CMD check", "y u no work?"))

u <- "http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131009153844/villains/images/f/f6/Grumpy_Cat.jpg"
plot(grumpy <- create_meme(u, "", "R-help"))

## 'template' is not of class 'meme_template'. Template assumed to be an image URL and meme will be generated with site 'memecaptain'.