Welcome to Night Vale is a twice-monthly podcast in the style of community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, with heavy themes of surreal humor and horror. A key and recurring part of the show is “Today’s Proverb”. This package provides the metadata and proverb for each episode as a dataset, in addition to a function to return a nicely formatted proverb to the console.
This package is a GitHub only package, and can be installed using:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("mcguinlu/nightvale")library(nightvale)
head(proverb_data)
#> id number title airdate
#> 1 1 1 Pilot 15 June 2012
#> 2 2 2 Glow Cloud 1 July 2012
#> 3 3 3 Station Management 15 July 2012
#> 4 4 4 PTA Meeting 1 August 2012
#> 5 5 5 The Shape in Grove Park 15 August 2012
#> 6 6 6 The Drawbridge 1 September 2012
#> proverb
#> 1 Look to the north. Keep looking. There's nothing coming from the south.
#> 2 Men are from Mars; women are from Venus; Earth is a hallucination; podcasts are dreams.
#> 3 There's a special place in Hell. It's really hip. Very exclusive.
#> 4 What has four legs in the morning, two legs at noon, and three legs in the evening? I don’t know, but I trapped it in my bedroom. Send help.
#> 5 A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A basilisk.
#> 6 Lost? Confused? Lacking direction? Need to find a purpose in your life?proverb()
#> We are living in an immaterial world, a ghost world, and I am an immaterial girl - a ghost.
#> -- "The Lights in Radon Canyon", 1 October 2012proverb(22)
#> Ask your doctor if right is left for you.
#> -- "A Memory of Europe", 15 April 2013The Welcome to Night Vale podcast continues to release a new show every two weeks. In order to capture the proverbs from these new episodes, this project also contains a GitHub Action that automatically re-scrapes the community-maintained table of proverbs every week. When new proverbs are identified, the proverb dataset included as part of this package is updated.
To get the most up-to-date version of the proverb dataset, simply re-install the package using:
devtools::install_github("mcguinlu/nightvale")