rQuote

Prints a random quote extracted from goodreads.com

rQuote(tag = "science", theme = c("light", "dark"),
  fonts = "Francois One", popup = TRUE, cores = detectCores() - 1,
  OS = c("windows", "linux", "macOS"), control = NULL, ...)

Arguments

tag	A character string specifying the desired tag to look quotes from. Defaults to 'science'.
theme	Character string specifying whether the light or the dark theme should be used for the pop-up plot window. Defaults to 'light'.
fonts	Character string specifying the desired Google fonts to use. Fonts are installed using function font_add_google from package sysfonts.
popup	Logical; if TRUE a pop-up plot window with the quote appears. Defaults to 'TRUE'.
cores	Integer specifying the number of cores to be used by the function. Defaults to the number of cores detected on the current host minus 1.
OS	Character string specifying the Operating System of the current host. Defaults to windows.
control	a list of control values with components: page_range: Integer specifying the number of Goodreads' pages to look quotes from. Defaults to 1. Must be greater than zero and less or equal to 100. width: width of plotting device in inches. Defaults to 48. height: height of plotting device in inches. Defaults to 24. text size: the size of the fonts used to plot the quote in mm. Defaults to 7.

Details

Argument tag refers to the available user defined tags in goodreads.com. They consist of a single word with lowercase characters (e.g 'politics', 'sports', ...). They do not contain spaces, special characters or uppercase letters. If the user inputs a tag that does not exist in goodreads.com, then no quote will be found and an error message will appear.