Type: Package
Title: Generation of Different Animated Christmas Cards
Version: 1.4.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1)
Imports: animation (≥ 2.7), grDevices, graphics, stats, methods
Suggests: testthat
Description: Generation of different Christmas cards, most of them being animated. Most of the cards can be generated in three languages (English, Catalan and Spanish). The collection started in 2009.
License: GPL-2
URL: https://sites.google.com/view/josebarrera/
Encoding: UTF-8
RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2024-12-10 12:54:54 UTC; jose
Author: Jose Barrera-Gomez ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Jose Barrera-Gomez <jose.barrera@uab.cat>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2024-12-10 14:30:02 UTC

christmas: Generation of Different Animated Christmas Cards

Description

Generation of different Christmas cards, most of them being animated. Most of the cards can be generated in three languages (English, Catalan and Spanish). The collection started in 2009.

Author(s)

Maintainer: Jose Barrera-Gomez jose.barrera@uab.cat (ORCID)

See Also

Useful links:

Caganer.

Description

A Catalan 'caganer' (2009 card). Caganer is a figurine depicted in the act of defecation appearing in nativity scenes in Catalonia and neighbouring areas with Catalan culture such as Andorra, Valencia, and Northern Catalonia (in southern France). It is most popular and widespread in these areas, but can also be found in other areas of Spain (Murcia), Portugal, and southern Italy (Naples). Further details can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caganer. This caganer won the annual contest of sustainable caganers at CREAL (now ISGlobal, https://www.isglobal.org/en/) in 2009.

Usage

xmascaganer(
  year = 2010,
  language = c("english", "spanish", "catalan"),
  seed = NULL
)

Arguments

year

Year to be printed. Default is 2010.

language

Language to be used in the card. One of c("english", "spanish", "catalan"). Default is "english".

seed

Seed for reproducibility of the card. Default is NULL (no seed).

Value

A Christmas card plot with a caganer.

Author(s)

Jose Barrera-Gomez.

Examples


xmascaganer()

Christmas epitree.

Description

A statistical/epidemiological Christmas tree (2016 card). This tree is built using a random subset of statistical and epidemiological words.

Usage

xmasepitree(year = 2017, seed = NULL)

Arguments

year

Year to be printed. Default is 2017.

seed

Seed for reproducibility of the card. Default is NULL (no seed).

Value

A Christmas card plot including a tree made of nice words.

Author(s)

Jose Barrera-Gomez.

Examples


xmasepitree()

Christmas flag.

Description

Christmas flag (2015 card). A flag with a Christmas message.

Usage

xmasflag(
  year = 2016,
  language = c("english", "spanish", "catalan"),
  seed = NULL
)

Arguments

year

Year to be printed. Default is 2016.

language

Language to be used in the card. One of c("english", "spanish", "catalan"). Default is "english".

seed

Seed for reproducibility of the card. Default is NULL (no seed).

Value

A Christmas card plot including a message in a flag.

Author(s)

Jose Barrera-Gomez.

Examples


xmasflag(year = 2020, language = "catalan")

Fractal Christmas tree.

Description

The tree fractal structure was adapted from (https://blogs.sas.com/content/iml/2012/12/14/a-fractal-christmas-tree.html). A preliminary translation to R was written by Alejandra Cabana (UAB).

Usage

xmasfractaltree(year = 2025, language = c("english", "spanish", "catalan"))

Arguments

year

Year to be printed. Default is 2025.

language

Language to be used in the card. One of c("english", "spanish", "catalan"). Default is "english".

Value

A Christmas card plot including a fractal Christmas tree.

Author(s)

Jose Barrera-Gomez.

Examples


xmasfractaltree()

Christmas Galton card.

Description

Christmas Galton card (2018). A Christmas tree in the Galton board. This is an adaptation of quincunx() in package animation, which simulates the Galton board (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bean_machine).

Usage

xmasgalton(
  year = 2019,
  language = c("english", "spanish", "catalan"),
  balls = 240,
  layers = 15,
  onlyBoard = FALSE,
  treeballs = 15,
  time = 0.02,
  seed = NULL
)

Arguments

year

Year to be printed. Default is 2019.

language

Language to be used in the card. One of c("english", "spanish", "catalan"). Default is "english".

balls

The number of balls in the board. Default is 240.

layers

The number of layers in the board. Default is 15.

onlyBoard

Logical. If FALSE (default), an empirical Christmas normal tree estimated from data is added to the histogram.

treeballs

The number of balls to be added to the Christmas normal tree. Default is 15.

time

Elapsed time, in seconds, between two consecutive balls in the board. Default is 0.02.

seed

Seed for reproducibility of the card. Default is NULL (no seed).

Value

A Christmas tree in a Galton board.

Author(s)

Jose Barrera-Gomez.

Examples


# more balls, less layers:
xmasgalton(balls = 300, layers = 9, time = 0.01)
# no balls in the gaussian christmas tree:
xmasgalton(balls = 400, layers = 11, time = 0.005, treeballs = 0)

Christmas risks.

Description

Christmas risks (2011 card). Some epidemiological jokes about potential effects of Christmas on health.

Usage

xmashealth(year = 2012, seed = NULL)

Arguments

year

Year to be printed. Default is 2012.

seed

Seed for reproducibility of the card. Default is NULL (no seed).

Value

A Christmas card plot including boxplots and OR estimates.

Author(s)

Jose Barrera-Gomez.

Examples


xmashealth()

Christmas helix.

Description

Christmas helix (2023 card). A helix with a Christmas message.

Usage

xmashelix(
  year = 2024,
  language = c("english", "spanish", "catalan"),
  totalsecs = NULL,
  seed = NULL
)

Arguments

year

Year to be printed. Default is 2024.

language

Language to be used in the card. One of c("english", "spanish", "catalan"). Default is "english".

totalsecs

Approximate total time, in seconds, to create the card. Default is NULL (and it is internally set).

seed

Seed for reproducibility of the card. Default is NULL (no seed).

Value

A Christmas card plot including a message in a helix.

Author(s)

Jose Barrera-Gomez.

Examples


xmashelix(year = 2024, language = "catalan", totalsecs = 1)

Neon Christmas card.

Description

Christmas card using a neon sign (2013 card). It only works for wishing 2014.

Usage

xmasneon(
  language = c("english", "spanish", "catalan"),
  nflash = 30,
  pause = 0.1,
  seed = NULL
)

Arguments

language

Language to be used in the card. One of c("english", "spanish", "catalan"). Default is "english".

nflash

Number of flashes shown in the neon sign. Default is 30.

pause

Pause, in seconds, between two consecutive flashes shown in the neon sign. Default is 0.1.

seed

Seed for reproducibility of the card. Default is NULL (no seed).

Value

A Christmas card plot including a message and then a simulations of a neon sign.

Author(s)

Jose Barrera-Gomez.

Examples


xmasneon()
xmasneon(language = "catalan", nflash = 10, pause = 0.05)
xmasneon(nflash = 100, pause = 0.01)

Picasso's pigeon.

Description

Approximation to Picasso's pigeon (2022 card).

Usage

xmaspicasso(
  year = 2023,
  language = c("english", "spanish", "catalan"),
  seed = NULL
)

Arguments

year

Year to be printed. Default is 2023.

language

Language to be used in the card. One of c("english", "spanish", "catalan"). Default is "english".

seed

Seed for reproducibility of the card. Default is NULL (no seed).

Value

A Christmas card plot including an approximation to Picasso's pigeon.

Author(s)

Jose Barrera-Gomez.

Examples


xmaspicasso()
xmaspicasso(year = 2023, language = "catalan")

Christmas regression model.

Description

A plot of the Christmas regression model (2019 card).

Usage

xmasregression(
  year = 2020,
  language = c("english", "spanish", "catalan"),
  time = 4,
  seed = NULL
)

Arguments

year

Year to be printed. Default is 2020.

language

Language to be used in the card. One of c("english", "spanish", "catalan"). Default is "english".

time

Total time, in seconds, for the card generation. Default is 12.

seed

Seed for reproducibility of the card. Default is NULL (no seed).

Value

An illustration of the Christmas regression model.

Author(s)

Jose Barrera-Gomez.

Examples


xmasregression()
xmasregression(year = 2021, language = "catalan", time = 2)

Koch snowflakes.

Description

Koch snowflakes (2012 card). Koch snowflakes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch_snowflake) are used to print the Christmas message in three languages (English, Catalan and Spanish).

Usage

xmassnowkoch(year = 2013, seed = NULL)

Arguments

year

Year to be printed. Default is 2013.

seed

Seed for reproducibility of the card. Default is NULL (no seed).

Value

A Christmas card plot including Koch snowflakes.

Author(s)

Jose Barrera-Gomez.

Examples


xmassnowkoch()

Christmas snowman.

Description

Christmas snowman (2014 card).

Usage

xmassnowman(
  year = 2015,
  language = c("english", "spanish", "catalan"),
  seed = NULL
)

Arguments

year

Year to be printed. Default is 2015.

language

Language to be used in the card. One of c("english", "spanish", "catalan"). Default is "english".

seed

Seed for reproducibility of the card. Default is NULL (no seed).

Value

A Christmas card plot including a snowman.

Author(s)

Jose Barrera-Gomez.

Examples


xmassnowman(year = 2015, language = "catalan")

Christmas message.

Description

A random repetition of a message (2010 card). Random allocation of repetitions of the Christmas message.

Usage

xmastext(
  year = 2011,
  language = c("english", "spanish", "catalan"),
  seed = NULL
)

Arguments

year

Year to be printed. Default is 2011.

language

Language to be used in the card. One of c("english", "spanish", "catalan"). Default is "english".

seed

Seed for reproducibility of the card. Default is NULL (no seed).

Value

A Christmas card plot including the repetition of the same message randomly allocated.

Author(s)

Jose Barrera-Gomez.

Examples


xmastext(year = 2011, language = "spanish", seed = 666)

Naive Christmas tree.

Description

A random naive Christmas tree (2008 card).

Usage

xmastree(
  year = 2009,
  language = c("english", "spanish", "catalan"),
  seed = NULL
)

Arguments

year

Year to be printed. Default is 2009.

language

Language to be used in the card. One of c("english", "spanish", "catalan"). Default is "english".

seed

Seed for reproducibility of the card. Default is NULL (no seed).

Value

A Christmas card plot including a random tree.

Author(s)

Jose Barrera-Gomez.

Examples


xmastree(year = 2020, language = "catalan", seed = 666)

Christmas shaped tree.

Description

Christmas trees (2017 card) with different shapes.

Usage

xmastreeshape(
  year = 2018,
  language = c("english", "spanish", "catalan"),
  shape = c("piramidal", "oval", "vshaped", "round", "columnar"),
  nballs = 15,
  ballscolor = NULL,
  seed = NULL
)

Arguments

year

Year to be printed. Default is 2018.

language

Language to be used in the card. One of c("english", "spanish", "catalan"). Default is "english".

shape

The shape of the tree. One of c("piramidal", "oval", "vshaped", "round", "columnar"). Default is "piramidal".

nballs

The number of balls in the tree. Default is 15.

ballscolor

The colors to be used for the balls in the tree. It must be a vector with names of colors included in colors(), or NULL (default). If NULL, then colors are randomly selected.

seed

Seed for reproducibility of the card. Default is NULL (no seed).

Value

A Christmas card plot including a christmas tree.

Author(s)

Jose Barrera-Gomez.

Examples


xmastreeshape(shape = "oval", language = "catalan", ballscolor = "blue")
xmastreeshape(shape = "vshaped", nballs = 15, ballscolor = c("sienna2", "yellow2", "tomato"),
              seed = 1111)
xmastreeshape(shape = "columnar", nballs = 20, ballscolor = "red")

Wire Christmas tree.

Description

A random wire Christmas tree (2021 card).

Usage

xmastreewire(
  year = 2022,
  language = c("english", "spanish", "catalan"),
  seed = NULL
)

Arguments

year

Year to be printed. Default is 2022.

language

Language to be used in the card. One of c("english", "spanish", "catalan"). Default is "english".

seed

Seed for reproducibility of the card. Default is NULL (no seed).

Value

A Christmas card plot including a random wire tree.

Author(s)

Jose Barrera-Gomez.

Examples


xmastreewire(year = 2020, language = "catalan", seed = 666)