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Messages, Warnings, Strings with Ascii Animals

v1.2.2 · Oct 28, 2025 · MIT + file LICENSE
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Description

Allows printing of character strings as messages/warnings/etc. with ASCII animals, including cats, cows, frogs, chickens, ghosts, and more.

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r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang OK
r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc OK
r-devel-macos-arm64 OK
r-devel-windows-x86_64 OK
r-oldrel-macos-arm64 OK
r-oldrel-macos-x86_64 OK
r-oldrel-windows-x86_64 OK
r-patched-linux-x86_64 OK
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OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies crayon rlang dRiftDM cowsay

Version History

new 1.2.2 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.2.2 ← 1.2.0 diff Oct 28, 2025
updated 1.2.0 ← 1.0.0 diff Mar 28, 2025
updated 1.0.0 ← 0.9.0 diff Dec 4, 2024
updated 0.9.0 ← 0.8.2 diff Nov 1, 2023
updated 0.8.2 ← 0.8.0 diff Mar 7, 2023
updated 0.8.0 ← 0.7.0 diff Feb 5, 2020
updated 0.7.0 ← 0.6.0 diff Sep 17, 2018
updated 0.6.0 ← 0.5.0 diff May 14, 2018
updated 0.5.0 ← 0.4.0 diff Dec 15, 2016
new 0.4.0 Oct 12, 2015