rladies/praise

Praise useRs when they have done something good, or when they just need it

praise

Praise Users

Build friendly R packages that praise their users if they have done something good, or they just need it to feel better.

Installation

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("rladies/praise")

Usage

library(praise)
praise()

#> [1] "You are super-excellent!"

You can supply a template, and praise() fills in random words of the specified part of speech:

praise("${EXCLAMATION}! You have done this ${adverb_manner}!")

#> [1] "AYE! You have done this enormously!"

Note that capitalization in the inserted words will be the same as in the template:

praise("${Exclamation}! ${EXCLAMATION}!-${EXCLAMATION}! This is just ${adjective}!")

#> [1] "Yowza! MMHM!-YAHOO! This is just praiseworthy!"

Currently supported parts of speech:

names(praise_parts)

#> [1] "adjective"     "adverb"        "adverb_manner" "created"      
#> [5] "creating"      "exclamation"   "rpackage"

License

MIT © Gabor Csardi, Sindre Sorhus

praise's Issues

Metaphors

Like

Your code is wonderland.
Your code is the bomb.

Etc.

Praise in Python

This project is so great but I did find a Python version. So I made one and used some words in this project. I am still following the MIT licence and add the link to this project.

The Python version is at https://github.com/funtion/praise.

Hope this is OK for you. Feel free to contact me if you have any worries or comments.

Thanks

Request to move "posh" from praise

Would it be possible to remove the word "posh" from the praise file https://github.com/rladies/praise/blob/ab66fe2b6080f0a2d55c4b3c395529a8271a4034/R/adjective.R as this isn't necessarily praise in British English? I checked this on Twitter as a poll as I wasn't sure if it was just me but it got quite a few votes saying no, it isn't a compliment. Although it can be used as praise as in, "don't you look posh!" it's never used in the constructed praise of "you are posh!".

Thanks for a great package - we are using this in our internal package and it's lovely to see who gets the next random praise (which is where I saw this phrase)!

Well we need praise even when things go wrong (esp. then)

How about some sympathy type words as well ?

Here is a use-case:

err = rnorm()

if(class(err == "try-error"))
 praise("We have a error in rnorm ${sympathy}.)

We have a error in rnorm don't worry.
We have a error in rnorm heavens are not gonna fall.
We have a error in rnorm but you are still alive.
We have a error in rnorm but there is ice-cream in the freezer.
We have a error in rnorm it's almost weekend.

pval <- my model

if(pval > 0.2)
 praise("Its not you, its the data; ${sympathy}.")

etc....

Add emoji praises

Like 👍 and 🎉. Need some way of detecting if they're supported in current terminal (if that's even possible)

Is 'callipygian' an appropriate adjective?

"Callipygian" basically means "having a nice ass." While I personally think it's funny, I'm not sure if it's something that should be in a general-purpose praising package.

I can imagine someone using the praise package in a classroom, for example. All it would take is for a student to look up the definition of "callipygian," and what was supposed to be humorous just became a sexual harassment case.

Perhaps it would go better in a dirtytalk package?

Basic praise function

So I thought for starters we could have something like:

praise <- function(template = "This is ${superb}!") {
  ## ...
}

and then praise just inserts a random adjective from superb into the template.

?

Typo in verbs.R

praise_parts$creating[16] ('preparin') should be 'preparing'.

Fixed in PR.

Write test cases

Praise in other languages

Specifically Chinese first, via @Avatoo. \o/

We need to work out some simple architecture first.

Create a separate category for smileys

Maybe.

smileys

included in the parts of speech but not in the readme
:)

Word list should be internal data?

i.e. in R/sysdata.rda since it's to be used by the package, not by users of the pacakge

Anything else you want to see before CRAN submission?

I don't mind adding solace() and solace_parts, or we can have it in the next version.