Allows printing of character strings as messages/warnings/etc. with ASCII animals, including cats, cows, frogs, chickens, ghosts, and more.
| Version: | 1.2.2 | 
| Imports: | crayon, rlang | 
| Suggests: | fortunes, rmsfact, knitr, rmarkdown, testthat | 
| Published: | 2025-10-29 | 
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.cowsay | 
| Author: | Scott Chamberlain [aut, cre], Amanda Dobbyn [aut], Tyler Rinker [ctb], Thomas Leeper [ctb], Noam Ross [ctb], Rich FitzJohn [ctb], Carson Sievert [ctb], Kiyoko Gotanda [ctb], Andy Teucher [ctb], Karl Broman [ctb], Franz-Sebastian Krah [ctb], Lucy D'Agostino McGowan [ctb], Guangchuang Yu [ctb], Philipp Boersch-Supan [ctb], Andreas Brandmaier [ctb], Marion Louveaux [ctb], David Schoch [ctb] | 
| Maintainer: | Scott Chamberlain <myrmecocystus at gmail.com> | 
| BugReports: | https://github.com/sckott/cowsay/issues | 
| License: | MIT + file LICENSE | 
| URL: | https://github.com/sckott/cowsay, https://sckott.github.io/cowsay/ | 
| NeedsCompilation: | no | 
| Language: | en-US | 
| Materials: | README, NEWS | 
| CRAN checks: | cowsay results | 
| Reference manual: | cowsay.html , cowsay.pdf | 
| Vignettes: | cowsay tutorial (source, R code) | 
| Package source: | cowsay_1.2.2.tar.gz | 
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: cowsay_1.2.0.zip, r-release: cowsay_1.2.0.zip, r-oldrel: cowsay_1.2.0.zip | 
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): cowsay_1.2.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): cowsay_1.2.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): cowsay_1.2.2.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): cowsay_1.2.2.tgz | 
| Old sources: | cowsay archive | 
| Reverse suggests: | dRiftDM | 
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