woRdle

{woRdle}: Enjoying Wordle with R package names.

Description

An R package woRdle is a word game inspired by Wordle (https://www.nytimes.com/games/wordle/index.html). Unlike original version (Wordle), in woRdle, answer words are taken from R package list in your own PC or CRAN.

Contact Info

• Jaehyun Song, Ph.D.
• Associate Professor in Faculty of Informatics, Kansai University
• E-mail: song@kansai-u.ac.jp
• Homepage: https://www.jaysong.net

Installation

# If you have {remotes},
remotes::install_github("JaehyunSong/woRdle")
# If you have {devtools},
devtools::install_github("JaehyunSong/woRdle")
# If you have {pacman},
pacman::p_install_gh("JaehyunSong/woRdle")

Enjoy!

> library(woRdle)
> wordle()

## 55 package names retrieved.
> Input your guess (6 times reamined): shiny

> Input your guess (5 times reamined): dplyr

> Input your guess (4 times reamined): utils

> Input your guess (3 times reamined): cjoint
## Guess must have 5 characters. (only alphabets)

> Input your guess (3 times reamined): rvest

> Input your guess (2 times reamined): vctrs

## Congratulation!!
## My Record: 5 (Answer was {VCTRS})
## 🟨⬛⬛⬛⬛
## ⬛⬛⬛⬛🟨
## ⬛🟨⬛⬛🟩
## 🟨🟨⬛🟨🟨
## 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Arguments

A function wordle() has two arguments—answer and strict.

• answer: "installed" (default), "cran", "ranking", or any five character.
  • "installed": A package list is obtained from your PC.
  • "cran": A package list is obtained from CRAN.
  • "ranking: Top downloaded package list is obtained from CRAN using an R package, {cranlogs}.
  • You can set any answer with five characters, for example, "knitr" or "seoul".
• strict: a logical value; TRUE (default) or FALSE.
  • If TRUE, a guess not in package list is not applicable. If FALSE, a guess can have any five charterers.
  • This arguments work only when answer is "installed", "cran", "ranking".

Useful functions

• wordle_list(): Display a list of package names with five alphabets.
  • type = "installed": A package list is obtained from your PC. (default)
  • type = "cran": A package list is obtained from CRAN.
  • type = "ranking": Top downloaded package list is obtained from CRAN using an R package, {cranlogs}.