Another new version of our still-new-ish package myman reached CRAN this morning, and has been built for r2u and on r-universe. The matching Python package has also been updated. The package offers twenty two hundred eighty four “My man …” posts by Kevin Kruse made on bsky during the summer of 2026. Each wave picked at one particular public persona. This package wrapse these up in the style of packages like fortunes or gaussfacts.
This release contains a new wave from October 31 to November 1 poking fun at Mike Johnson—just in time for the election.
> library(myman)
> set.seed(20261102) # reproducible sampling
> myman(target="Mike Johnson")
My man looks like he used parental controls to block "Pimp My Ride".
-- about Mike Johnson on 2026-11-01
> So have a chuckle, and then go out and vote! The short NEWS entry for this release follows.
Changes in version 0.13.0 (2026-11-02)
- New wave thirteen (100 posts); total is now 2284 posts
Courtesy of my CRANberries, there is also a diffstat report for the most recent release. More information is available at the repository or the package page.
This post by Dirk Eddelbuettel originated on his Thinking inside the box blog. If you like this or other open-source work I do, you can sponsor me at GitHub.