simple.chutes: simulate a chutes and ladder game

In UsingR: Data Sets, Etc. for the Text "Using R for Introductory Statistics", Second Edition

simulate a chutes and ladder game

Description

This function will simulate a chutes and ladder game. It returns a trajectory for a single player. Optionally it can return the transition matrix which can be used to speed up the simulation.

Usage

simple.chutes(sim=FALSE, return.cl=FALSE, cl=make.cl())

Arguments

sim	Set to TRUE to return a trajectory.
return.cl	Set to TRUE to return a transistion matrix
cl	set to the chutes and ladders transition matrix

Details

To make a chutes and ladders trajectory

simple.chutes(sim=TRUE)

To return the game board

simple.chutes(return.cl=TRUE)

when doing a lot of simulations, it may be best to pass in the game board

cl <- simple.chutes(return.cl=TRUE) simple.chutes(sim=TRUE,cl)

Value

returns a trajectory as a vector, or a matrix if asked to return the transition matrix

Author(s)

John Verzani

References

board was from http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/~musuem/vexhibit/Whitehill/snakes/snakes.gif

Examples

plot(simple.chutes(sim=TRUE))

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