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face suit value
king spades 13
queen spades 12
jack spades 11
ten spades 10
nine spades 9
eight spades 8
seven spades 7
six spades 6
five spades 5
four spades 4
three spades 3
two spades 2
ace spades 1
king clubs 13
queen clubs 12
jack clubs 11
ten clubs 10
nine clubs 9
eight clubs 8
seven clubs 7
six clubs 6
five clubs 5
four clubs 4
three clubs 3
two clubs 2
ace clubs 1
king diamonds 13
queen diamonds 12
jack diamonds 11
ten diamonds 10
nine diamonds 9
eight diamonds 8
seven diamonds 7
six diamonds 6
five diamonds 5
four diamonds 4
three diamonds 3
two diamonds 2
ace diamonds 1
king hearts 13
queen hearts 12
jack hearts 11
ten hearts 10
nine hearts 9
eight hearts 8
seven hearts 7
six hearts 6
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four hearts 4
three hearts 3
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@Rawlley27
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Hello, first of all, your book is excellent!

I had a doubt regarding the Exercise on Page 73 of the book where we are asked to write the shuffle function. While we do get a random card(row) on running the function deal(deck2), on running the function multiple times, I get the same card (row) again and again, is this okay or have I made a mistake?

Thank you!

@musicmind97
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The new shuffle() card isn't getting saved into a new deck. Completely normal, the author teaches you in the next couple sections the best way to go about it. Happy coding!

@Rawlley27
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The new shuffle() card isn't getting saved into a new deck. Completely normal, the author teaches you in the next couple sections the best way to go about it. Happy coding!

Thank you for the clarification!

@Rawlley27
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Hello, I had a question regarding viewing R's environment system. I installed and loaded both the usethis and the devtools package, however, when I run the function parenvs(all = TRUE), I get the error message - "Error in parenvs(all = TRUE) : could not find function "parenvs"".

Thank you!

@Rawlley27
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"Error in parenvs(all = TRUE) : could not find function "parenvs""

Okay, so it looks like that the parenvs() function has been removed from devtools, because it is now in the pryr package. Thanks!

@musicmind97
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Welcome to coding, you ask and answer a question, cause in the end they're all just a bunch of hexcodes firing around somewhere.

If you have trouble with environments, try switching your IDE. Currently I'm using PyCharm, which is a python compiler with lots of R addons, easy to use once you get the hang of it ✌

@Rawlley27
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Hello, I have a question.

As described on Page 106, when we write the following function -
deal <- function() {
card <- deck[1, ]
assign("deck", deck[-1, ], envir = globalenv())
card
}

Why is the card on top of the deck different every time we run deal( )? There has been no mention of random, as we did in the shuffle function, which would re-arrange the cards in a random order? Thank you!

@garrettgman
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@Rawlley27 this line

assign("deck", deck[-1, ], envir = globalenv())

updates deck to contain everything except the top card, which has now been "dealt".

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@Rawlley27 this line

assign("deck", deck[-1, ], envir = globalenv())

updates deck to contain everything except the top card, which has now been "dealt".

Thank you for your reply! I get it now, we are getting things in order every time we run this function, queen followed by jack and so on... Thank you again for clarifying!!

@Rawlley27
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Hello, I had a question, in the following code on page 127
same <- symbols[1] == symbols[2] && symbols[2] == symbols[3]

why are there two & symbols? I know the meaning of one & but why are there two? Thank you!!

@Rawlley27
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Hello, I had a question, in the following code on page 127
same <- symbols[1] == symbols[2] && symbols[2] == symbols[3]

why are there two & symbols? I know the meaning of one & but why are there two? Thank you!!

okay, I just read the next page of the book which clarified my doubt, thank you!

@Rawlley27
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Hello, On page 134, it should be "And when cherries equal two" and not three. The cherries equal three scenario should be taken care of by Case 1 where we have three of the same symbol.

And when cherries equals three, we have:
cherries + 1

3

c(0, 2, 5)[cherries + 1]

5

I just wanted to clarify this, please do correct me if I am wrong. Thank you!

@jmh20
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jmh20 commented Jan 21, 2021

Your book really help to start R programming: smooth and progressive approach!

@menchoi
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menchoi commented Feb 16, 2021

That is great book. Thank you !

@hdshovel
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hdshovel commented Feb 18, 2021 via email

@jdfmart
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jdfmart commented Mar 20, 2021

Thank you for the book, and for making it available for free. Really appreciated.

@Gamielre
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I'm really thankful

@shaunschuyler
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Thank you for putting this together. Going through it now

@PeterHamnett
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This is a really engaging course and got me excited to learn. Thanks a lot!

@hanlu-meta
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Thank you!

@omikron41
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Muchas GRACIAS Sr. Garrett !!
El libro está BIEN PADRE e INTERESANTE, APRENDE UNO RÁPIDO... es la primera vez que aprendo a programar.
DIOS lo bendiga siempre!!
Carlos

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@Jfelipelaverde

Hi Felipe, I don't know if its too late, but I had a similar problem and thought that, since you have a Spanish name, like I do, our problem had something to do with the region where we are located. Indeed I found a solution. The problem is that the default separator for Spanish speaking regions is a semicolon (;), not a comma. Hence, when you download the data to Excel it will change some of the quotation marks and commas. To solve this issue you can follow the instructions in this link: https://harvestmedia.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360023978031-Opening-Excel-files-with-the-correct-CSV-list-separator#:~:text=CSV%20(comma%20delimited)%20will%20not,comma%20separator%20or%20semicolon%20separator.

I think that this may help other Spanish speaking people encountering a similar problem in the future.

I hope it helps.

@JimKay1941
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Is it just me, or are there others who are bothered by the "value" for "jack", "queen", and "king" being set to "11, 12, and 13" respectively?

Perhaps there is some other use that will be made of the "value" numbers, but that should be pointed out right here and now.

I loaded the CSV file into EXCEL and changed those values to all be "10." I did this for the obvious reason.

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