fortunes {fortunes} | R Documentation |
Read and print R fortunes.
fortune(which = NULL, fortunes.data = NULL) ## S3 method for class 'fortune': print(x, width = NULL, ...) read.fortunes(file = NULL)
which |
An integer specifying the row number of fortunes.data .
Alternatively which can be a character and grep is used
to try to find a suitable row. |
fortunes.data |
A data frame containing a fortune in each row. By default the fortune data from the fortune package are used. |
x |
An object of class "fortune" , usually a single row from fortunes.data . |
width |
Integer specifying the character width. By default getOption("width")
is used. |
... |
Currently not used. |
file |
A character string giving a fortune database in csv format (in UTF-8 encoding). By default all csv files in the data directory of the fortune package are used. |
fortune()
returns an object of class "fortune"
which is
a row from a data frame of fortunes (like those read in from read.fortune
).
read.fortune()
returns a data frame of fortunes, each row contains:
quote |
the quote, main part of the fortune, |
author |
the author of the quote, |
context |
the context in which it was quoted (if available, otherwise NA ), |
source |
where it was quoted (if available, otherwise NA ), |
date |
when it was quoted (if available, otherwise NA ). |
fortune() fortune("Ripley") fortune(17)