Time for another look at what’s new and interesting in the #rstats world with the help of Peter Meissner’s (@marvin_dpr) crossword.r?.
The answers to last week’s puzzle have been posted (it seemed to make more sense posting the answers a week later vs the Monday after).
There is a dedicated category — puzzler — to make it easier to find these later on, all in one place. That category also has it’s own RSS feed.
Peter Meissner (@marvin_dpr) released crossword.r? to CRAN today. It’s a spiffy package that makes it dead simple to generate crossword puzzles.
He also made a super spiffy javascript library to pair with it, which can turn crossword model output into an interactive puzzle.
I thought I’d combine those two creations with a way to highlight new/updated packages from the previous week, cool/useful packages in general, and some R functions that might come in handy. Think of it as a weekly way to get some R information while having a bit of fun!
This was a quick, rough creation and I’ll be changing the styles a bit for next Friday’s release, but Peter’s package is so easy to use that I have absolutely no excuse to not keep this a regular feature of the blog.
I’ll release a static, ggplot2 solution to each puzzle the following Monday(s). If you solve it before then, tweet a screen shot of your solution with the tag #rstats #puzzler and I’ll pick the first time-stamped one to highlight the following week.
I’ll also get a GitHub setup for suggestions/contributions to this effort + to hold the puzzle data.
ANSWERS
library(crossword.r)
cw <- Crossword$new(rows = 12, columns = 12)
cw$add_words(
words = c(
"crosswordr",
"searchr",
"kerasformula",
"fs",
"crypto",
"mgcv",
"startsWith",
"akima",
"rcompgen",
"broom",
"nord"
),
clues = c(
"New package to generate crosswords (w/o '.')",
"Interpolation-focused package",
"Core generalized additive modelling package",
"Package facilitating searching Bing, Google and more from an R console",
"New, high-level interface package to 'keras'",
"Consistent, cross-platform, vectorised filesystem operations package",
"Interface package to all digital/crypto currency market data",
"base function to test if a string starts with another string",
"utils function to generation command completion networks",
"Package that makes it easy to tidy statistical analyses objects",
"An arctic, north-bluish color palette package"#,
)
)