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Start a Minesweeper Game

Source: R/play_minesweeper.R
play_minesweeper.Rd

Play minesweeper interactively in the current graphics device.

Usage

play_minesweeper(
  difficulty = c("expert", "intermediate", "beginner"),
  nrow = NULL,
  ncol = NULL,
  mine_count = NULL,
  mine_density = NULL,
  os_type = c("guess", "unix", "windows")
)

Arguments

difficulty

establishes default dimensions and mine count

nrow, ncol

dimensions of the minesweeper board

mine_count

number of mines to sweep

mine_density

proportion of cells that conceal a mine

os_type

used to interpret button argument of event handlers

Value

Object of class "minesweeper_recording" to pass to replay_minesweeper() or save_minesweeper_gif(), invisibly.

Details

Expert difficulty is 16x30 with 99 mines, intermediate 16x16 with 40 mines, and beginner 9x9 with 10 mines.

The current graphics device must support event handling (see grDevices::getGraphicsEvent()). If onIdle is not supported, the timer will only update on mouse events.

Controls

  • Left click an empty square to reveal it.

  • Right click an empty square to flag it.

  • Middle click a number to reveal its adjacent squares.

  • Press r to reset the board.

  • Press q to quit.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # .Platform$OS.type == "unix" && interactive()
x11() # Unix-specific example
recording <- play_minesweeper()
dev.off()
}