Impress Your Friends with Custom Memes in R
Author : Christopher Blake
In my constant pursuit of meme-worthy content to demonstrate how hip I am to students, I stumbled across the meme package in R. The documentation is pretty sparse, but the jist is that it makes it easy-to-create custom memes with minimal commands in R. To my students, I know I will be using the package to make terrible jokes, but it could also be a neat way to show of your R skills to your peers. You can find an example of how to use the package here: https://www.r-bloggers.com/2020/11/create-bart-simpson-blackboard-memes-with-r/#google_vignette. Happy meme-ing (and make sure not to create them during class)!
I created the above meme using the following code, for reference:
pacman::p_load(meme)
if (.Platform$OS.type == "windows") {
windowsFonts(Comic = windowsFont("Comic Sans MS"))
}
bart <- "PATH\\bart_simpson_chalkboard-5157.gif" # source: http://free-extras.com/images/bart_simpson_chalkboard-5157.htm
text <- "I will not make memes in R during class."
text <- paste(rep(text,8),collapse = "\n")
text <- paste0("\n",text)
bartMeme <- meme(bart,
text,
size = 1,
font = "Comic",
vjust = 0,
r = 0)
meme_save(bartMeme,
file = "PATH\\bartR.png")
