meme: Create memes in R
August 24, 2025 · View on GitHub
The word ‘Meme’ was originated from the book, ‘The Selfish Gene’, authored by Richard Dawkins (1976). It is a unit of culture that is passed from one generation to another and correlates to the gene, the unit of physical heredity. The internet memes are captioned photos that are intended to be funny, ridiculous. Memes behave like infectious viruses and travel from person to person quickly through social media. The ‘meme’ package allows users to make custom memes.
Authors
Guangchuang YU https://yulab-smu.top
School of Basic Medical Sciences, Southern Medical University
Installation
Get the released version from CRAN:
install.packages("meme")
Or the development version from github:
## install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("GuangchuangYu/meme")
Vignette
## after installing the package
vignette("meme", package="meme")
Example
library(meme)
u <- system.file("angry8.jpg", package="meme")
meme(u, "code", "all the things!")
