| Type: | Package |
| Title: | The Greatest Mathematician Since Antiquity |
| Version: | 0.0.3 |
| Date: | 2026-08-23 |
| Description: | Display a random fact about Carl Friedrich Gauss based on the collection curated by Mike Cavers via the https://web.archive.org/web/*/gaussfacts.com site. |
| URL: | https://github.com/eddelbuettel/gaussfacts, http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/code/gaussfacts.html |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/eddelbuettel/gaussfacts/issues |
| License: | GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)] |
| Encoding: | UTF-8 |
| RoxygenNote: | 6.0.1 |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Packaged: | 2026-08-23 19:28:26 UTC; edd |
| Author: | Dirk Eddelbuettel 
[aut, cre],
Mike Cavers [aut] (<https://web.archive.org/web/*/gaussfacts.com> site) |
| Maintainer: | Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org> |
| Repository: | CRAN |
| Date/Publication: | 2026-08-23 20:20:02 UTC |
Display a Random Fact about Carl Friedrich Gauss
Description
Function to display a randomly chosen fact about Carl Friedrich Gauss
Usage
gaussfact(ind)
## S3 method for class 'gaussfact'
print(x, width = NULL, ...)
Arguments
ind |
Optional index of a quote; if missing a random value is sampled |
x |
Default object for |
width |
Optional column width parameter |
... |
Other optional arguments |
Details
This function displays a randomly chosen line from the included data set of random ‘facts’ about Carl Friedrich Gauss. It is based on corpus curated by Mike Cavers via the https://web.archive.org/web/*/gaussfacts.com site, and kindly made available.
Value
A character vector containing one randomly selected line
from the included file. It is of class gaussfact for
which an S3 print method will be invoked.
Author(s)
Dirk Eddelbuettel
Examples
set.seed(123)
gaussfact()