Primary format for quotes file
The quotes are stored in the data-raw/quotes_raw.txt
file. The script data-raw/convert_quotes_to_rda.R
can be
used to read these quotes and save them to data/quotes.rda
,
which is the main data file used in the package.
The quotes_raw.txt
file uses the following format for
each quotation. Lines beginning with “%” are comments and ignored. Other
lines contain a “key:value” pair. The key is used to identify the right
column when building the quotes
data.frame:
% Comment
quo: This is a quotation.
src: Person or persons who said or wrote the quote.
cit: Citation for the original quote.
url: URL where the quote can be found (such as journal articles).
tag: Comma-separated tags to categorize the quote.
tex: TeX-formatted citation
Here is an example:
quo: A judicious man looks at Statistics, not to get knowledge, but to save himself from having ignorance foisted on him.
src: Thomas Carlyle
cit: Chartism, 1840, Chapter II, Statistics
url: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Chartism/Chapter_2
tag: data visualization