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.
```{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")The gaussfacts (also on CRAN) and myman packages also delivers a delightful set to draw from just like this package does.
Dirk Eddelbuettel
GPL-3