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(This article was first published on <strong><a href="https://rud.is/b/2018/01/19/the-friday-rstats-puzzler-2018-01-19/"> R – rud.is</a></strong>, and kindly contributed to <a rel="nofollow" href="https://www.r-bloggers.com/">R-bloggers)</a> </div>
<p>Peter Meissner (<a rel="nofollow" href="http://twitter.com/marvin_dpr" target="_blank">@marvin_dpr</a>) released <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/petermeissner/crossword.r" target="_blank"><code>crossword.r</code><img alt="🔗" src="https://i1.wp.com/s.w.org/images/core/emoji/2.3/72x72/1f517.png?w=456&ssl=1" class="wp-smiley" data-recalc-dims="1"></a> to CRAN today. It’s a spiffy package that makes it dead simple to generate crossword puzzles. </p>
<p>He also made a super spiffy <a rel="nofollow" href="https://github.com/petermeissner/crossword.js" target="_blank">javascript library</a> to pair with it, which can turn crossword model output into an interactive puzzle.</p>
<p>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!</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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 <code>#rstats #puzzler</code> and I’ll pick the first time-stamped one to highlight the following week.</p>
<p>I’ll also get a GitHub setup for suggestions/contributions to this effort + to hold the puzzle data.</p>
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