| getXKCD {RXKCD} | R Documentation |
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. |
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.
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
References
Examples
library("RXKCD")
significant <- getXKCD(882, display=FALSE)