exercism

This package is designed to make it easy for R users to work through the R track on exercism.io.

It is not a complete replacement for the Exercism CLI, but instead provides easy access to the most commonly used CLI functionality:

• fetch problems
• skip problems
• submit solutions
• check status/progress

Install

devtools::install_github("jonmcalder/exercism")
library(exercism)

Setup

There are two essential steps which must be completed before you can make use of this R package:

• set your API key
• set your exercism path

Set your API key

Go to exercism.io -> account -> API key

Copy your API key (highlighted above in orange), and then run:

set_api_key("<your_API_key>")
# e.g.
# set_api_key("1a2b3c4d5e6f7g8h1a2b3c4d5e6f7g8h")

Set exercism path

set_exercism_path("<path_to_your_exercism_directory>")
# e.g. 
# set_exercism_path("C:/Users/Jon/exercism") # Windows example
# set_exercism_path("~/exercism")            # Mac & Linux example
# set_exercism_path()                        # Use default

Note that the exercism_path referred to here should be the root directory for exercism (i.e. not the R sub-directory).

By default the exercism command-line client (CLI) fetches exercises to ~/exercism. If you have previously used the CLI and have not changed the default directory, then just run set_exercism_path() (i.e. with no path argument) and this will use the default exercism directory.

Once you've set your API key and exercism path these will be remembered for future R sessions.

Usage

Note that all track-specific functions will default to the R track if the track_id argument is not specified.

Fetch problems

Get the next problem:

fetch_next()

Get a specific problem:

fetch_problem(slug = "leap")
fetch_problem(slug = "bob", track_id = "python")

Skip problems

skip_problem(slug = "bob")
skip_problem(slug = "hello-world", track_id = "python")

Submit problems

submit("C:/Users/Jon/exercism/r/leap/leap.R")
submit("C:/Users/Jon/exercism/python/anagram/anagram.py")

Check status

track_status()
track_status(track_id = "python")

RStudio Addin

The core functionality mentioned above is also accessible via an RStudio Addin. You can access it via the Addins menu, or by running exercism_addin().

Contribute

If you encounter any problems while using this package please raise them on the issues page. You can also use this page to offer any suggestions for improvement.