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Random Strings

20180604 It is sometimes very useful to be able to test out some code using some test data. A simple way to generate test strings us with stringi::stri_rand_lipsum().

stri_rand_lipsum(20)

##  [1] "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, himenaeos potenti, eleifend aenean pri...
##  [2] "Eleifend faucibus tortor erat in non nisl id. Purus ex inceptos ve...
##  [3] "Nascetur fusce nisl eu, in ridiculus ac, cursus facilisi ligula, e...
##  [4] "Tempus leo rutrum sagittis ornare sed est ante. Diam orci pellente...
##  [5] "A morbi velit libero accumsan ut. Erat metus ex vehicula nisi et e...
##  [6] "Ligula sem conubia sed eu dolor turpis vel, mollis. Eros, venenati...
##  [7] "Cras aliquam in sed odio, arcu scelerisque. Ac et in sed. Hac amet...
##  [8] "Tortor vestibulum sagittis vitae donec sem feugiat, non facilisis....
##  [9] "Ligula sed interdum eleifend vitae class leo et. Varius volutpat m...
## [10] "Erat viverra, at, in congue vitae in non. Nulla ante velit ut ut s...
## [11] "Mus pulvinar enim, leo pellentesque hendrerit velit nulla rutrum s...
## [12] "Ut integer praesent pellentesque, arcu urna. Sed tincidunt tortor ...
## [13] "Rutrum nisl in sapien eget, massa justo elementum nulla urna lectu...
## [14] "Dapibus sed erat suscipit tempor litora in proin suscipit lacinia ...
## [15] "Massa eros in faucibus auctor faucibus eu aptent, lobortis sem. No...
## [16] "Nec mauris amet nibh nisl aliquet. Non leo primis semper donec viv...
## [17] "Magna cras sed id est. Ligula cursus, nisi. Sollicitudin at, eu at...
## [18] "Et, imperdiet et lorem fusce nisi morbi enim. Mi et purus id purus...
## [19] "Proin amet donec accumsan adipiscing, elementum viverra mauris ad ...
## [20] "Mauris, sed. Ligula ad tellus justo vel neque nulla eu. Amet, vari...

stri_rand_lipsum(2)

## [1] "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, torquent scelerisque nam sed id augue e...
## [2] "Ut class feugiat amet etiam, in. A ac ipsum potenti et a duis ipsum...

sapply(stri_rand_lipsum(10), nchar, USE.NAMES=FALSE)

##  [1] 567 720 543 689 583 488 447 696 825 713

sapply(stri_rand_lipsum(10), nchar, USE.NAMES=FALSE)

##  [1] 681 420 563 814 735 465 480 810 791 612

The strings generated are of different lengths and each call generates different strings.