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 > > ______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html
