gaussfacts 0.0.3 on CRAN: Maintenance
A new release of gaussfacts package
arrived on CRAN – the first in
pretty much exactly a decade! gaussfacts
provides a fortunes-inspired
function to display randomly-chosen facts about Carl Friedrich
Gauss, based on the collection curated by Mike Cavers via the gaussfacts web site (with an archive.org link
it case it vanishes again). Each call of gaussfact()
displays another (randomly chosen, or indexed) fact.
An example:
> gaussfacts::gaussfact(9)
Gauss once played himself in a zero-sum game and won $50.
> This releases, as detailed below, accumulates a number of smaller maintenance changes including switching to Authors@R. Functionality has not changed. Oddly enough, it appears that I did not blog about the package when I created it in August 2016. So to (partially) make up for that, the NEWS for all three releases follow.
Changes in version 0.0.3 (2026-08-23)
Several rounds of continuous integration maintenance and enhancements
Additional README.md badges
Updates to DESCRIPTION as CRAN requirements change
A duplicate data entry has been removed (Tim Pokart in #4)
Documentation prefers https URLs
Updated continunous integration multiple times
Correct man page removing an erroneous duplicate word
Changes in version 0.0.2 (2016-08-03)
Support 'ind' argument to reference by position
Clean-up encoding and support extended character set (#2 closes #1)
Updated continunous integration (#3)
Changes in version 0.0.1 (2016-06-19)
- Initial version and CRAN upload
Thanks to my CRANberries, there is a diff to the previous release. Questions, comments etc should go to the GitHub issue tracker off the GitHub repo.
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