We made a fucking R package, MacGruber!

Welcome to the world’s best and most succinct R package. Have you ever been sitting at your computer, maybe with a spreadsheet open, maybe crunching some numbers, and thought, gee I sure wish I could make this computer randomly print lines from the script to the feature film MacGruber… Maybe it’s 2:30 PM, time for a cup of coffee, and you just want something a bit more entertaining than the afternoon bizjournals.com news roundup. I’ve certainly been there, and am here to help.

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We’re not sure if this will get past Ripley onto CRAN, with his totally capricious editorial decisions, but I assure you that all four lines of code work exactly as intended. Subtext: Rstudio may have lowered the barrier to entry for creating R packages a little too much.

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