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

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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

```{r} > 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. >


### Package Status

Complete and functional, no dependencies, passes tests.

### Installation

The package is [on CRAN](https://cran.r-project.org/package=rmsfact) and can
be installed via a standard

```{r}
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

These binaries (installable software) and packages are in development.
They may not be fully stable and should be used with caution. We make no claims about them.
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