get_words: get_words reads in words to be inserted in the puzzle and the...
In rmsharp/wordPuzzle: Word Search Puzzles in R

Reads the puzzle description file and returns a character vector with one word in each element.

1	get_words(puzzle_description_file)

puzzle_description_file

is a character varialble containing the name of the file containing the word list and specifications.

It has a list of words ended by a line beginning with a '#'. Words may be on the same or different lines. The following elements make of the specifications, which follow the word list:

puzzle_description_file	File name (with path if necessary) with the specifications and word list to use.
title	Title for word puzzle first page.
max_trials	Number of times the program is to try to fit each word into the puzzle n_direction times.
n_directions	Number of directions (not necessarily different) to be tried for each word if needed.
width	Width of puzzle in characters.
height	Height of puzzle in rows.
left_right	Direction of word characters; normal.
right_left	Direction of word characters; backward.
up_down	Direction of word characters
down_up	Direction of word characters
up_right	Direction of word characters
up_left	Direction of word characters
down_right	Direction of word characters
down_left	Direction of word characters