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cowsay 0.9.0

• remove multicolor temporarily as it is no longer on CRAN (#86)
• use new special “sentinel” “PACKAGE” prefixed with an underscore for the package level manual file (84)
• new animals alligator, goldfish, stegosaurus, whale, and wolf from @harriscw (#79)

cowsay 0.8.2

• makes sure to use a suggested package multicolor conditionally throughout the package (tests, examples, vignettes)

cowsay 0.8

NEW FEATURES

• say() parameter what loses the fillerama options (“arresteddevelopment”, “doctorwho”, “dexter”, “futurama”, “holygrail”, “simpsons”, “starwars”, “loremipsum”) because the API is down
• gains two squirrels squirrel and squirrel2 (#74) from @marionlouveaux
• gains chuck norris chuck (#62) from @bgreenwell
• the type parameter in say() gains new option print, the default option in non-interactive environments. type="print" will cat() output (#70) (#72)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• standardize spacing above first line in animals (#68) (#69)
• add examples to readme of using colors (#73)

BUG FIXES

• fix to use of colors: if colors can not be used in certain computing environments, tell users that and set colors to NULL (#65) (#66)

cowsay 0.7

NEW FEATURES

• cowsay now supports colors via the multicolor package from Amanda Dobbyn. supports coloring by the thing being said (new what_color parameter) or the thing saying it (new by_color parameter). supports more than one color. thanks Amanda! (#59) (#61)

cowsay 0.6

BUG FIXES

• Fix catfact API usage (#56) (#57)

cowsay 0.5

NEW FEATURES

• @ateucher added support for the rmsfact package, for random facts about Richard Stallman (#45)
• turkey animal added by @jeremycg , thanks Jeremy! (#46)
• @LucyMcGowan added a monkey, thanks Lucy! (#47)
• @GuangchuangYu added the BSD daemon, also called “beastie”, thank so much! (#48) (#49)
• @onertipaday added support for quotes from the http://fillerama.io/ service with quotes from Futurama, Star Wars, Dexter, Monty Python, Doctor Who, and more. Thanks Paolo! (#51)

MINOR IMPROVEMENTS

• removed broken link from readme and pkg (#43) thanks @apjanke

BUG FIXES

• @ateucher fixed problem on windows (#40)
• @florianm fixed a spelling error (#41) (#42)

cowsay 0.4

• First release to CRAN

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