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The Rfiglet Package
For those who don’t know what figlet is, it’s a command line utility for creating ascii logos. Rfiglet, therefore, is a set of R bindings for figlet.
Works about like you would expect:
library(Rfiglet)
figlet("ascii")
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# __ _ ___ ___(_|_)
# / _` / __|/ __| | |
#| (_| __ (__| | |
# __,_|___/___|_|_|
There are over 150 s available, and you can see an example of each one in this Rfiglet package vignette.
We can even use our ascii art with another ascii package that emulates a command line utility, cowsay:
library(cowsay)
library(Rfiglet)
say(paste(figlet("longcat is long"), collapse="n"), "longcat")
# -----
# _ _ _ _
#| | ___ _ __ __ _ ___ __ _| |_ (_)___ | | ___ _ __ __ _
#| |/ _ | '_ / _` |/ __/ _` | __| | / __| | |/ _ | '_ / _` |
#| | (_) | | | | (_| | (_| (_| | |_ | __ | | (_) | | | | (_| |
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For those of you who are familiar with integrating compiled code into R, you may find my approach in this package somewhat amusing/horrifying.
Figlet as a Service
As we all know, software’s out and services are in. That’s why I also created Figlet as a Service. Ascii is finally ready for the enterprise.
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