RXKCD (version 1.9.2)

getXKCD: Display your favorite XKCD comic in R

Description

This function fetches a XKCD comic strip (randomly or by number) and displays it on screen.

Usage

getXKCD(which = "current", display = TRUE, html = FALSE, saveImg = FALSE)

Arguments

which

string: either "current" or "random"; or a number indicating the specific strip.

display

logical; TRUE (default) if you like to display the strip on the screen.

html

logical; TRUE if you like to open the XKCD web page for the selected comic in your browser: if TRUE it sets display and saveImg arguments to FALSE. Default FALSE.

saveImg

logical; TRUE if you want to save image in the current directory. Default FALSE.

Value

a list containing the following fields:

• img URL of the XKCD comic strip image (png)

• title Title of the XKCD comic strip

• month

• num Number of the XKCD comic strip

• link

• year Year of publication

• safe_title

• transcript

• alt

• day

• news

Details

Old R versions may have problems accessing HTTPS URLs such as those used on the XKCD website. In case the default method of download.file fails, alternatives will be tried. For the best chance to succeed, ensure that the command line tools "wget" and "curl" as well as the "RCurl" package are installed.

References

https://xkcd.com/license.html

Examples

# NOT RUN {
library("RXKCD")
significant <- getXKCD(882, display=FALSE)

# }