Package {myman}

Type: Package
Title: Draw from Sequence of 'My Man' Posts by Kevin Kruse
Version: 0.12.0
Date: 2026-10-18
Description: Starting on the afternoon of July 17, 2026, Kevin Kruse fired off an astonishing array of 'BlueSky' replies to an initial post of his featuring a certain government figure: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cnpe7qvcyjrhm6w7w7e4atur/post/3mqum4mxsuk2g. This lasted a week and generated nearly seven hundred posts. Over the next few weeks, several more waves followed, each taking aim at a different prominent figure. All of the by now over two thousand posts from these series start with 'My man ...' and make for excellent input to a 'fortunes'-like function. So this small package obliges and offers a random draw each time its myman() function is called. The overall package structure follows package 'fortunes', and 'atrrr' was used to (bulk-)retrieve posts. Neither package is required to run this package to display random selections.
URL: https://github.com/eddelbuettel/myman
BugReports: https://github.com/eddelbuettel/myman/issues
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
Encoding: UTF-8
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-10-18 14:28:09 UTC; edd
Author: Dirk Eddelbuettel ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd@debian.org>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-10-18 14:40:02 UTC

Display a Random 'my man' Skeet by Kevin Kruse

Description

This function displays a randomly chosen line from the included data set of two thousand one hundred and eighty four 'my man' skeets by Kevin Kruse posted on Bluesky starting in July 2026 in replies to the initial post https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:cnpe7qvcyjrhm6w7w7e4atur/post/3mqum4mxsuk2g, in August 2026 starting with https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3mstvbjpagc2a as well as further series starting with, respectively, https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3mtcpiw7gi22j, https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3mu3pugs2yk2f, https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3mudbzy5ksk25, https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3muparqtdkk2w, https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3mvdol6xu5k2s, https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3mvnmq23nw22y, https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3mwtx2jztkk2g, https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3mx333hlmdc2o, https://bsky.app/profile/kevinmkruse.bsky.social/post/3mxgzqblov22r, https://bsky.app/profile/leftistwonk.bsky.social/post/3mxsfblcuh22d.

posts is a convenience function that returns the underlying data as a data.frame

Usage

myman(ind, target, posts = 1)

## S3 method for class 'myman'
print(x, width = NULL, ...)

posts()

men()

Arguments

ind

Optional index of a quote, or character expression to be matched; if missing a random index value is sampled

target

Optional character value to describe target of posts, can be a part of the name as regular expression matching is used

posts

Optional count for number of posts to sample, defaults to one

x

Default object for print method

width

Optional column width parameter

...

Other optional arguments

Value

A character vector containing one randomly selected line from the included file. It is of class myman for which an S3 print method will be invoked.

Examples

set.seed(123)
myman(target="Miller")    # random draw against first target
myman("maitre")           # all posts mentioning a "maitre'd"