[R-sig-Debian] How to get fortunes in R

[Michael Dewey]

Have you installed the fortunes package? From within R you can go 
install.packages("fortunes")
If you have already installed it then there is something deeper going on.

On 21/12/2014 11:37, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote:
> I was going through
> http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com/papers/r_package_development_nov2014.pdf
> and found this on pg-3
>
>
>> fortunes::fortune(92)
> ##
> ## If you don't go with R now, you will someday.
> ## -- David Kane (on whether to use R or S-PLUS)
> ## R-SIG-Finance (November 2004)
>
> However, when I tried it on my machine, I get
>
> rajulocal at hogwarts:~/work/r_programming$ R -q
>> fortunes::fortune(92)
> Error in loadNamespace(name) : there is no package called ‘fortunes’
>
> What package(s) do I need to install to get fortune in R? I tried
> doing a "apt-cache search fortune R" but none of the hits look
> promising. I am using Debian Jessie.
>
> rajulocal at hogwarts:~/work/r_programming$ dpkg -l \*fortune\* r-base | grep ^ii
> ii  fortune-mod       1:1.99.1-7   amd64        provides fortune
> cookies on demand
> ii  fortunes-min      1:1.99.1-7   all          Data files containing
> selected fortune cookies
> ii  r-base            3.1.1-1      all          GNU R statistical
> computation and graphics system
>
> thanks
>

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Michael
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