readLogfile: Parse Nethack Logfiles

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Parse Nethack Logfiles

Description

Read logfiles of the ancient game of Nethack.

Usage

read_logfile (file, version = NULL, expand.abbrevs = TRUE, verbose = TRUE)
read_xlogfile(file, version = NULL, expand.abbrevs = TRUE, verbose = TRUE, sep = "\t")

Arguments

file	character; the logfile (or record file)
version	character
expand.abbrevs	logical; should abbreviated rolenames etc. be expanded? Default is TRUE.
verbose	logical: write messages?
sep	character: the field separator

Details

Currently only version 3.4.3 and newer are supported (i.e. regularly tested). Logfiles for version 3.1.0 should also work.

Value

A data.frame.

version	Nethack version
name	player name
score	score
dun.num
dun.level	dungeon level when killed
dun.level.max	deepest dungeon level visited
hp	hitpoints
hp.max	maximum hitpoints
ndeaths	number of deaths
death.date	Date; end of game
birth.date	Date; start of game
uid	uid
role	role
race	race
gender	gender: male or female
alignment	alignment
cause	cause of death
while	additional comment

Author(s)

Enrico Schumann

References

http://www.saunalahti.fi/~juklahta/nethack.html

http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Logfile

https://metacpan.org/source/SARTAK/NetHack-Logfile-1.00/lib/NetHack/Logfile/Entry/33.pm

http://nethack.wikia.com/wiki/NetHack_3.1.0/topten.c

https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Source:NetHack_3.1.0/topten.c

http://alt.org/nethack/

http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/games/nethack/General/Source/Utils/reclist.c

https://github.com/NetHack/NetHack

https://github.com/enricoschumann/NethackLogfiles

https://scoreboard.xd.cm/about.html

Examples

## Not run: 
library("NethackLogfiles")
nh <- read_logfile("/var/games/nethack/logfile")
nh <- read_xlogfile("/var/games/nethack/xlogfile")
table(nh$role)
boxplot(nh$score ~ nh$role)
boxplot(log(nh$score) ~ nh$role)

plot(nh$death.date, nh$score, type = "h")  ## score as a time-series
boxplot(nh$score ~ format(nh$death.date, "

nh <- read_xlogfile("/var/games/nethack/xlogfile",
                    expand.abbrevs = FALSE)
boxplot(nh$dun.level.max ~ nh$role)

## End(Not run)

enricoschumann/NethackLogfiles documentation built on Feb. 3, 2023, 2:36 p.m.