Positive encouragement is nifty, but have ya tried negative encouragement?

Everyone needs to be taken down a peg once in a while, especially oneself! Forked from the complementary (and complimentary!) package praise, malign provides ready-made insults for use when code does not run as expected. Useful for troubleshooting code, or just to make oneself feel bad.

devtools::install_github("josephwb/malign");

library(malign);
malign();

#> [1] "You are stomach-turning!"

malign() currently supports the following parts of speech:

names(malign_parts);

#> [1] "adjective"     "adverb"        "adverb_manner" "created"      
#> [5] "creating"      "exclamation"   "rpackage"      "frowny"       
#> [9] "result"

You can pass a template specifying these supported parts of speech, and malign() fills in random words of the matching type:

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

#> [1] "GAK! You have done this discourteously!"

Prefer your jabs to be in emoticon form? No problem:

malign("${frowny}");

#> [1] "D8"

Is ‘malign’ too hoity-toity for you? Try some other commands (note: harshness does not differ across commands):

insult("${EXCLAMATION}! That was quite ${adjective}!");

#> [1] "MERDE! That was quite ungroomed!"

or:

dis("${EXCLAMATION}!!! That was certainly a ${result}!");

#> [1] "WTF!!! That was certainly a letdown!"

or:

zing("${EXCLAMATION}! That code executed quite ${adverb_manner}!");

#> [1] "GEE-WHIZ! That code executed quite shabbily!"

or:

snark("${EXCLAMATION}! Your coding ability is just ${adjective}!");

#> [1] "BAISE MOI! Your coding ability is just secretive!"

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

malign("${Exclamation}! ${EXCLAMATION}! ${Exclamation}! This is just ${adjective}!");

#> [1] "Dang! SHUCKS! Gosh! This is just unamazing!"

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