[R] poker package -- comments?

[Dan Bolser]

Duncan Murdoch wrote:
> Over the weekend I wrote a small package to evaluate poker hands and to 
> do some small simulations with them.  If anyone is interested in looking 
> at it, I'd appreciate comments and/or contributions.

How do I install this package?

A README or a hint on th webpage below would be great.


> The package is available at 
> http://www.stats.uwo.ca/faculty/murdoch/software.  (Look at the bottom 
> of the list.)
> 
> So far only the Texas Hold'em variation has been programmed.  There's 
> support for wild cards and fairly general schemes of putting together
> hands for evaluation, so it wouldn't be too hard to add other games. 
> There's no support for betting or simulating different strategies, but 
> again, if you want to write that, it should be possible.
> 
> Here's a quick example, where I've asked it to simulate hands until it 
> came up with one I won.  In the first case I start with a pair of aces 
> and won on the first hand; in the second another player started with 
> aces, and it took 7 hands to find me a winner.
> 
> poker> select.hand(pocket = card("Ah As"), players = 4)
> Showing: 4H 3S 2D 6S 4C
>    Rank Name Cards      Value
> 1    1 Self AH AS   Two pair
> 2    2    1 8S 3C   Two pair
> 3    3    2 QD KH Pair of 4s
> 4    4    3 8H 9D Pair of 4s
> Would win  4  person game
> Required 1 hand.
> 
> poker> select.hand(players = list(card("Ah As"), NULL, NULL))
> Showing: AD 4H 7D 2C 8S
>    Rank Name Cards       Value
> 1    1 Self 6H 5H    Straight
> 2    2    1 AH AS 3 of a kind
> 3    3    2 AC 3C  Pair of As
> 4    4    3 9D 6D      A high
> Would win  4  person game
> Required 7 hands.
> 
> Duncan Murdoch
> 
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