lol engine

Create a lol object to pass to lolcat and friends

Methods

Create a new lol engine

lol$new(rate = 0.02, angle = pi/4, aspect = 3, palette = NULL)

rate: The rate of colour progression in terms of fraction of the colour palette per horizontal line when angle = 0. Increasing values give increasing rate of colour change.
angle: The angle of the colour change. 0 is horizontal lines only, pi / 4 (the default) runs the gradient top-left to bottom-right, pi / 2 changes across columns and so on. Any numeric value is allowed.
aspect: The assumed aspect ratio of rows to columns (used in the treatment of angle).
palette: The colour palette to use. This should be a vector of hex colours that "wrap". We will interpolate along this vector to select a colour for the output. The default is a rainbow set of colours.

Render text in colour

lol$render(text, reset = TRUE)

text: Character vector to render
reset: Reset the column on return (i.e, assume text is followed by a newline)

Render a single line (i.e., single string) in colour

lol$render_line(text, reset = TRUE)

text: Single string to render
reset: Reset the column on return (i.e, assume text is followed by a newline)

Set this object as the package default

lol$set_as_default()