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?
cowsay was originally written by Tony Monroe, with the first code released in 1999. The version of cowsay you get via homebrew is a fork by Andrew Janke at https://cowsay.diamonds/ (code repo). The code for the original can be found at tnalpgge/rank-amateur-cowsay and the original website can be seen on the Wayback Machine. Both the original and version by Janke are both written in Perl. The cowsay you get with apt on Linux machines is the last version Monroe released in 2016 (v3.0.4 or possibly v3.0.3).
This R package has some additional features the orginal cowsay doesn't have, but also lacks some features the original has. This package doesn't yet support custom eyes and tongue for the cow or any other animals.
- Amanda Dobbyn
- Andreas Brandmaier
- Andy Teucher
- Carson Sievert
- David Schoch
- 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 18 people to make cowsay - it's that hard.
See CONTRIBUTING.md
Sources to look in:
- https://asciiart.website/ - again, this person only collects them - no mention of license, permissions, etc.
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).
Asciicast: https://asciinema.org/a/7745
From CRAN
install.packages("cowsay")Dev version
# install.packages("pak")
pak::pak("sckott/cowsay")library("cowsay")sort(animals)
#> [1] "alligator" "ant" "anxiouscat" "bat" "bat2"
#> [6] "beavis" "behindcat" "bigcat" "blowfish" "buffalo"
#> [11] "cat" "chicken" "chuck" "clippy" "cow"
#> [16] "cow_borg" "cow_dead" "cow_greedy" "cow_sleepy" "cow_tired"
#> [21] "cow_wired" "cow_young" "daemon" "duck" "duckling"
#> [26] "egret" "endlesshorse" "facecat" "fish" "frog"
#> [31] "ghost" "goldfish" "grumpycat" "hypnotoad" "longcat"
#> [36] "longtailcat" "monkey" "mushroom" "owl" "pig"
#> [41] "poop" "pumpkin" "rabbit" "shark" "shortcat"
#> [46] "signbunny" "smallcat" "snowman" "spider" "squirrel"
#> [51] "squirrel2" "stegosaurus" "stretchycat" "trilobite" "turkey"
#> [56] "whale" "wolf" "yoda"say("time")
#>
#> ____________________________
#> < 2025-03-25 22:48:47.356922 >
#> ----------------------------
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#> (oo)\ ________
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#> || ||say("ain't that some shit", "chicken")
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#> /` /` [nosig]Add some color:
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 - but the results are not super pretty:
say(
what = paste0("hello ", crayon::yellow("there "), crayon::underline("world")),
by = "trilobite"
)
say("hell no!")
#>
#> __________
#> < hell no! >
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#> || ||say("hell no!", type = "warning")
#> Warning in say("hell no!", type = "warning"):
#> __________
#> < hell no! >
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#> || ||say("hell no!", type = "string")
#> [1] "\n __________ \n< hell no! >\n ---------- \n \\\n \\\n\n ^__^ \n (oo)\\ ________ \n (__)\\ )\\ /\\ \n ||------w|\n || ||"From the catfacts API at https://catfact.ninja
say("catfact", "cat")
#>
#> _________________________________________________________
#> / When a family cat died in ancient Egypt, family members \
#> | would mourn by shaving off their eyebrows. They also |
#> | held elaborate funerals during which they drank wine |
#> | and beat their breasts. The cat was embalmed with a |
#> | sculpted wooden mask and the tiny mummy was placed in |
#> | the family tomb or in a pet cemetery with tiny mummies |
#> \ of mice. /
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#> \_)From the a Boing Boing tweet on 2014-05-10 "twitter.com/BoingBoing/status/465170473194512384" (post may be gone)
say("it's caturday", "longcat")
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#> ಠ X ಠsay("WOKE UP TODAY, IT WAS TERRIBLE", by = "grumpycat")
#>
#> ________________________________
#> < WOKE UP TODAY, IT WAS TERRIBLE >
#> --------------------------------
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#> ಠ X ಠsay("I HAD FUN ONCE, IT WAS AWFUL", by = "grumpycat")
#>
#> ______________________________
#> < I HAD FUN ONCE, IT WAS AWFUL >
#> ------------------------------
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#> Kiyoko Gotandalibrary(fortunes)
say("fortune", "cat")
#>
#> ________________________________________________________
#> / Finally, a word of wisdom from a long-ago engineering \
#> | colleague: "Whenever I see an outlier, I'm never sure |
#> | whether to throw it away or patent it." Berton Gunter |
#> \ on outlier identification R-help December 2009 /
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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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say("Q: What do you call a solitary shark\nA: A lone shark", by = "shark")
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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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say("fortune", by = "monkey")
#>
#> _________________________________________________________
#> / R is Open Source and so you can modify it to emulate \
#> | the bugs in other software: that is not one of the aims |
#> | of its developers so please don't expect us to do so |
#> | for you. Brian D. Ripley answering a request for a |
#> | change to Excel-like non IEC 60559 standard conform |
#> \ rounding R-help March 2009 /
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#>
#> ______________________________________________________
#> / The learning curve is steep - but then like many \
#> | people, I'd like to be able to do sophisticated |
#> | modelling with deep understanding and no effort :-) |
#> | Sean O'Riordain in a thread about the helpfulness of |
#> \ documentation R-help July 2005 /
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endless_horse()
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#>
#> ______________________________
#> < I HAD FUN ONCE, IT WAS AWFUL >
#> ------------------------------
#> \
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#> ﾊ _ ﾊ
#> ಠ X ಠOkay, hold your endless horses. Just use the function animal_fetch() to select the animal you want by name.
animal_fetch("clippy")
#> [1] "\n _\n / \\\n | |\n @ @\n || ||\n || ||\n |\\_/|\n \\___/ GB"- License: MIT
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