fortunes: R Fortunes

A collection of fortunes from the R community.

Version: 1.5-5
Imports: utils
Published: 2026-06-26
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.fortunes
Author: Achim Zeileis ORCID iD [aut, cre] (R code), R Community [aut] (fortunes), Peter Dalgaard [ctb], Uwe Ligges [ctb], Kevin Wright [ctb], Martin Maechler [ctb], Kjetil Brinchmann Halvorsen [ctb], Kurt Hornik [ctb], Duncan Murdoch [ctb], Andy Bunn [ctb], Ray Brownrigg [ctb], Roger Bivand [ctb], Spencer Graves [ctb], Jim Lemon [ctb], Christian Kleiber [ctb], David L. Reiner [ctb], Berton Gunter [ctb], Roger Koenker [ctb], Charles Berry [ctb], Marc Schwartz [ctb], Michael Dewey [ctb], Ben Bolker [ctb], Peter Dunn [ctb], Sarah Goslee [ctb], Simon Blomberg [ctb], Bill Venables [ctb], Roland Rau [ctb], Thomas Petzoldt [ctb], Rolf Turner [ctb], Mark Leeds [ctb], Emmanuel Charpentier [ctb], Chris Evans [ctb], Paolo Sonego [ctb], Peter Ehlers [ctb], Detlef Steuer [ctb], Tal Galili [ctb], Greg Snow [ctb], Brian D. Ripley [ctb], Michael Sumner [ctb], David Winsemius [ctb], Liviu Andronic [ctb], Brian Diggs [ctb], Matthieu Stigler [ctb], Michael Friendly [ctb], Dirk Eddelbuettel [ctb], Richard M. Heiberger [ctb], Patrick Burns [ctb], Dieter Menne [ctb], Andrie de Vries [ctb], Barry Rowlingson [ctb], Renaud Lancelot [ctb], R. Michael Weylandt [ctb], Jon Olav Skoien [ctb], Francois Morneau [ctb], Antony Unwin [ctb], Joshua Wiley [ctb], Terry Therneau [ctb], Bryan Hanson [ctb], Henrik Singmann [ctb], Eduard Szoecs [ctb], Gregor Passolt [ctb], John C. Nash [ctb], Thierry Onkelinx [ctb], Ron Ammar [ctb], Joshua Ulrich [ctb], Michael Meyners [ctb], John Sorkin [ctb]
Maintainer: Achim Zeileis <Achim.Zeileis at R-project.org>
BugReports: https://codeberg.org/zeileis/fortunes/issues
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3
URL: https://zeileis.codeberg.page/fortunes/
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: fortunes results

Documentation:

Reference manual: fortunes.html , fortunes.pdf
Vignettes: R Fortunes: Collected Wisdom (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: fortunes_1.5-5.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: fortunes_1.5-4.zip, r-release: fortunes_1.5-4.zip, r-oldrel: fortunes_1.5-4.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): fortunes_1.5-5.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): fortunes_1.5-5.tgz, r-release (x86_64): fortunes_1.5-5.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): fortunes_1.5-5.tgz
Old sources: fortunes archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse suggests: corteza, cowsay, reprex, rfordummies, spongebob, webdav

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