Amazing Random Facts About the World's Greatest Hacker

Display a randomly selected quote about Richard M. Stallman based on the collection in the 'GNU Octave' function 'fact()' which was aggregated by Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso based on the (now defunct) site stallmanfacts.com (which is accessible only via < http://archive.org>).

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