Display a random forking gif in your RStudio viewer pane

Installation

You can install the development version of bortles from github with:

# install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("adam-gruer/bortles")

Note, installing this package will copy about 10 mb of gif files to your computer at the location returned by this R expression:

system.file("gifs", package = "bortles")

Installation may take a minute or two.

Example

library(bortles)

fork()

fork()

You can also call fork() at any time without calling library(bortles)

bortles::fork()

Set option to call bortles::fork whenever your code has a forking error. Terrific use case courtesy of John Blischak

options(error = bortles::fork)
log(1 + "a")

Add your own gifs

Once installed add your own gifs to the folder on your PC returned by system.file("gifs", package = "bortles"). I have a naming convention for the current files in there but that is not required its just a throwback to my development process.

The package works by copying these gifs to the R session temp directory whenever the package is loaded by either library(bortles) or bortles::fork(). Having lots of gif files will probably slow loading down.

If you ever reinstall the package any gifs you added will be deleted.