RXKCD: Get XKCD Comic from R

Visualize your favorite XKCD comic strip directly from R. Includes full-text search with BM25 ranking and semantic similarity search via local 'GloVe' embeddings, powered by a local 'DuckDB' cache.

Version:	2.0.1
Imports:	jsonlite, httr, jpeg, png, graphics, utils, DBI, duckdb, text2vec
Published:	2026-04-15
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.RXKCD
Author:	Paolo Sonego [aut, cph, cre], Mikko Korpela [aut]
Maintainer:	Paolo Sonego <paolo.sonego at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/onertipaday/RXKCD/issues
License:	GPL-2
URL:	https://onertipaday.github.io/RXKCD/, https://github.com/onertipaday/RXKCD
NeedsCompilation:	no
Materials:	README
CRAN checks:	RXKCD results

Documentation:

Reference manual:

RXKCD.html , RXKCD.pdf

Downloads:

Package source:	RXKCD_2.0.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: RXKCD_1.9.2.zip, r-release: RXKCD_2.0.1.zip, r-oldrel: RXKCD_1.9.2.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): RXKCD_1.9.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): RXKCD_1.9.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): RXKCD_2.0.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): RXKCD_2.0.1.tgz
Old sources:	RXKCD archive

Linking:

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