In rmsharp/wordPuzzle: Word Search Puzzles in R

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This RMarkdown document is a hidden word puzzle maker. The user provides a text file with one or more words per line and the program tries to place those words into a matrix of characters that whose size is specified by the configuration specified at the end of the word file. The configuration section begins on the line after a line beginning with a '#' symbol. An example file structure follows:

firstWord secondWord thirdWord short verrryyyyyy loooonnnng wwwwwoooorrrrrd

max_trials = 10000 n_directions = 20 width = 17 height = 15 left_right = 0.3 right_left = 0.2 up_down = 0.2 down_up = 0.2 up_right = 0.1 up_left = 0.1 down_right = 0.1 down_left = 0.1

The numbers associated with the directions of word formation are used to determine the stochastic probability that the direction will be used for the word placement.

A word placement may fail. Each word placement attempts to place the word in the puzzle max_trials times before the placement attempt is considered unsuccessful. he numbers associated with the directions of word formation are also relative to each other and may be integers. Thus, a direction of formation that is 0.3 is going to be (on average) tried three times more often than a direction that has a value of 0.1.

library(wordPuzzle)
filename <- "inst/extdata/word_lists/books_of_bible.txt"
puzzle_list <- make_puzzle(filename, upper_case = TRUE)

print_puzzle(puzzle_list)
print_words(puzzle_list)
print_key(puzzle_list)

rmsharp/wordPuzzle documentation built on May 26, 2019, 10:36 a.m.