cowsay
What is this?
If you are familiar with cowsay on the cli, then you know what this
is, but for R. If not, read below. Why? Why not?
Contributors (alphabetical)
- Amanda Dobbyn
- Andreas Brandmaier
- Andy Teucher
- Carson Sievert
- Franz-Sebastian Krah
- Guangchuang Yu
- Karl Broman
- Kiyoko Gotanda
- Lucy D’Agostino McGowan
- Marion Louveaux
- Noam Ross
- Paolo Sonego
- Philipp Boersch-Supan
- Rich FitzJohn
- Scott Chamberlain
- Thomas Leeper
- Tyler Rinker
That’s right, it takes 17 people to make cowsay - it’s that hard.
Contributing
See CONTRIBUTING.md
Where to find ASCII animal art
Sources to look in:
- https://asciiart.website/ - again, this person only collects them - no mention of license, permissions, etc.
- https://www.asciiworld.com/
Permissions
In the ascii art mailing list https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/alt.ascii-art they say:
As for posting other people's ASCII art,
after a discussion in news:alt.ascii-art _ ___
the following rules were agreed upon: #_~`--'__ `===-,
1. If an ASCII ART picture has initials `.`. `#.,//
on it, leave them on when posting it ,_\_\ ## #\
2. If an ASCII ART picture doesn't have `__.__ `####\
initials on it, mention that you ~~\ ,###'~
didn't draw it when posting it. \##'
3. If somebody posts a picture without [nosig]
initials and you have an original copy
with initials on, feel free to re-post the original version.
* The re-post ought not to be taken personally, as we all
know that ASCII art often loses proper credits.
Responses to the re-post are not necessary.
One contributor, name of Krogg, suggested the following:
1.) Ultra polite:...ya make yer own ascii and use it.
2.) Very polite:...Ya contact the author and ask if ya
can use it...
3.) polite:...Ya use it but you keep the Credits
in there like they should be.
4.) rude:...Ya use it and strip credits.
5.) Very rude:...Ya use it and claim that it Is
_Your_ very own creation...
So, let’s go with this rule: Let’s include found (on the web) ascii art
in this pkg, include signature if there, and if no signature, put in a
[nosig] (see above).
Quick watch start
Asciicast: https://asciinema.org/a/7745
Install
From CRAN
install.packages("cowsay")
Dev version
remotes::install_github("sckott/cowsay")
library("cowsay")
The animals
sort(names(animals))
#> [1] "alligator" "ant" "anxiouscat" "bat" "bat2"
#> [6] "behindcat" "bigcat" "buffalo" "cat" "chicken"
#> [11] "chuck" "clippy" "cow" "daemon" "duck"
#> [16] "duckling" "egret" "endlesshorse" "facecat" "fish"
#> [21] "frog" "ghost" "goldfish" "grumpycat" "hypnotoad"
#> [26] "longcat" "longtailcat" "monkey" "mushroom" "owl"
#> [31] "pig" "poop" "pumpkin" "rabbit" "shark"
#> [36] "shortcat" "signbunny" "smallcat" "snowman" "spider"
#> [41] "squirrel" "squirrel2" "stegosaurus" "stretchycat" "trilobite"
#> [46] "turkey" "whale" "wolf" "yoda"
Say Something
say('time')
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#> --------------
#> 2023-03-06 12:53:45
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#> ==) ^Y^ (==
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#> )=*=(
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#> jgs //_// ___/
#> \_)
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say("ain't that some shit", "chicken")
#>
#> -----
#> ain't that some shit
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#> `>' \
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#> | /'-. .-.
#> \' ';`--' .'
#> \'. `'-./
#> '.`-..-;`
#> `;-..'
#> _| _|
#> /` /` [nosig]
#>
Add some color:
library(multicolor)
library(crayon)
say("boo!", "ghost",
what_color = "cyan", by_color = "saddlebrown")
say("I love hooo you are!", "owl",
what_color = rgb(0, 1, 1), by_color = "#FF0000")
String styles together crayon-style:
say(what = "rms", by = "rms",
what_color = yellow$bgMagenta$bold,
by_color = cyan$italic)
This doesn’t preclude you from adding extra crayon colors to your what
string directly.
say(what = paste0("hello ", crayon::yellow("there "), crayon::underline("world")),
by = "trilobite",
what_color = bgBlue$cyan$italic,
by_color = "thistle") # Don't ask me why "thistle" is pink/purple
Multiple colors are also possible (uses the
multicolor package):
say(what = "I'm a rare Irish buffalo",
by = "buffalo",
what_color = c("salmon2", "darkcyan", "salmon2", "darkcyan"),
by_color = c("green", "white", "orange"))
Vary type of output, default calls message()
say("hell no!")
#>
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#> hell no!
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#> jgs //_// ___/
#> \_)
#>
say("hell no!", type="warning")
#> Warning in say("hell no!", type = "warning"):
#> --------------
#> hell no!
#> --------------
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#> jgs //_// ___/
#> \_)
#>
say("hell no!", type="string")
#> [1] "\n -------------- \nhell no! \n --------------\n \\\n \\\n \\\n |\\___/|\n ==) ^Y^ (==\n \\ ^ /\n )=*=(\n / \\\n | |\n /| | | |\\\n \\| | |_|/\\\n jgs //_// ___/\n \\_)\n "
Catfacts!!!!
From the catfacts API at https://catfact.ninja
say("catfact", "cat")
#> --------------
#> When a domestic cat goes after mice, about 1 pounce in 3 results in a catch.
#> --------------
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#> \_)
Long cat
From the a Boing Boing tweet on 2014-05-10
say("it's caturday", "longcat")
#>
#> -----
#> it's caturday
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#> .ﾊ,,ﾊ
#> ( ﾟωﾟ)
#> |つ つ
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#> U " U
#> [BoingBoing]
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Grumpy cat
say('NO!', by='grumpycat')
#>
#> --------------
#> NO!
#> --------------
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#> ಠ X ಠ
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say('WOKE UP TODAY, IT WAS TERRIBLE', by='grumpycat')
#>
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#> WOKE UP TODAY, IT WAS TERRIBLE
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say('I HAD FUN ONCE, IT WAS AWFUL', by='grumpycat')
#>
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#> I HAD FUN ONCE, IT WAS AWFUL
#> --------------
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#> ﾊ _ ﾊ
#> ಠ X ಠ
#>
Bunny Holding a sign
say(by='signbunny')
#>
#> --------------
#> Hello world!
#> --------------
#> (\__/) ||
#> (•ㅅ•) ||
#> / づ
#> [nosig]
#>
Fish
say(by='fish')
#>
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#> Hello world!
#> ------
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#> ><((((º> ><((((º> ><((((º> ><((((º> ><((((º>
#> Kiyoko Gotanda
#>
R fortunes
say('fortune','cat')
#>
#> --------------
#> Michael Watson: Hopefully this one isn't in the manual or I am about to get shot :-S
#> Peter Dalgaard: *Kapow*...
#> Michael Watson and Peter Dalgaard
#> question on axis()
#> R-help
#> February 2006
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#>
You can also pick a particular fortune by number or regex search - if
the fortune parameter is not NULL you don’t have pass anything to
the what parameter (the 1st parameter)
say(fortune=100)
#>
#> --------------
#> I'm not sure I'd trust any computer recommendation from 1976, no matter how famous the authors are.
#> Peter Dalgaard
#> after Samuel Edward Kemp cited a recommendation about nonlinear least squares computer programs from 'Box-Jenkins, 1976'
#> R-help
#> January 2005
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say(fortune='whatever')
#>
#> --------------
#> Justin: Is there a function that just does whatever I'm thinking (aka whatever my homework question is...)?
#> Joshua Ulrich: That's the magic_pony function.
#> Justin and Joshua Ulrich
#> stackoverflow.com
#> June 2013
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#>
Trilobite
say("Hi there :)", by='trilobite')
#>
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#> Hi there :)
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#> .'` ,-. `'.
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#> sk <``\_/``>
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Shark
say('Q: What do you call a solitary shark\nA: A lone shark', by='shark')
#>
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#> Q: What do you call a solitary shark
#> A: A lone shark
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Buffalo
say('Q: What do you call a single buffalo?\nA: A buffalonely', by='buffalo')
#>
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#> Q: What do you call a single buffalo?
#> A: A buffalonely
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Clippy
say(fortune=59, by="clippy")
#>
#>
#> -----
#> Let's not kid ourselves: the most widely used piece of software for statistics is Excel.
#> Brian D. Ripley
#> 'Statistical Methods Need Software: A View of Statistical Computing'
#> Opening lecture RSS 2002, Plymouth
#> September 2002
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Yoda
say("fortune", by = "yoda")
Bats!
say("hi, i'm a bat", by="bat")
#>
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#> hi, i'm a bat
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#> ''mrf
See also bat2
Monkey!
say("fortune", by = "monkey")
#>
#> -------------
#> Getting flamed for asking dumb questions on a public mailing list is all part of growing up and being a man/woman.
#> Michael Watson
#> in a discussion on whether answers on R-help should be more polite
#> R-help
#> December 2004
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Daemon!
say("fortune", by = "daemon")
#>
#> -----
#> I quit using SAS in 1991 because my productivity jumped at least 20% within one month of using S-Plus.
#> Frank Harrell
#> R-help
#> November 2003
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Egret
say("je ne regrette rien", by = "egret")
#>
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#> je ne regrette rien
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See also bat2
Endless horse
endless_horse()
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Using pipes
library("magrittr")
"I HAD FUN ONCE, IT WAS AWFUL" %>% say('grumpycat')
#>
#> --------------
#> I HAD FUN ONCE, IT WAS AWFUL
#> --------------
#> \
#> \
#> \
#> ﾊ _ ﾊ
#> ಠ X ಠ
#>
I just want the animals!
Okay, hold your endless horses. Just use the exported vector animals,
and you can select the animal you want by name.
animals['clippy']
#> clippy
#> "\n\n ----- \n%s \n ------ \n \\ \n \\ __\n / \\\n | |\n @ @\n || ||\n || ||\n |\\_/|\n \\___/ GB\n"
Meta
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