Read PPN files

Read/write Portable Piecepack Notation (PPN) files

Usage

read_ppn(file, parse = TRUE)

write_ppn(games = list(), file = "")

Arguments

file

Filename, if "" will use stdout()

parse

Logical of whether to parse the moves in the ppn file

games

A list of parsed PPN games (as returned by read_ppn())

Value

A list, for each game in the file a list containing info about the game

See also

plot_move(), animate_game(), and cat_move() for visualizing parsed ppn games.

Examples

 list.files(system.file("ppn", package = "ppgames"))
#>  [1] "alien-city.ppn"          "american-checkers.ppn"  
#>  [3] "desfases.ppn"            "four-field-kono.ppn"    
#>  [5] "fujisan.ppn"             "ice-floe.ppn"           
#>  [7] "international-chess.ppn" "japan.ppn"              
#>  [9] "plans-of-action.ppn"     "relativity.ppn"         
#> [11] "tablut.ppn"              "tic-tac-toe.ppn"        
#> [13] "xiangqi.ppn"            
 file <- system.file("ppn/tic-tac-toe.ppn", package = "ppgames")
 games <- read_ppn(file)
 tmp <- tempfile(fileext = ".ppn")
 write_ppn(games, tmp)
 unlink(tmp)