R Observatory: Metrics for wordler version 0.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

wordler

0.3.1Package record

The 'WORDLE' Game

0packages depend

2.4Kdownloads / year

47.3%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by David SmithCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

The 'Wordle' game. Players have six attempts to guess a five-letter word. After each guess, the player is informed which letters in their guess are either: anywhere in the word; in the right position in the word. This can be used to inform the next guess. Can be played interactively in the console, or programmatically. Based on Josh Wardle's game https://www.powerlanguage.co.uk/wordle/.

Changes in 0.3.1

Updates for CRAN resubmission:
The list representing game state now has an S3 class - "wordler".
All exported functions now have a documented return value.
All functions which accept and return a "wordler" object are documented

regarding their effects on the "wordler" object.

Documented the wordler class (in the constructor new_wordler()).
Fixed issue with detection of letters known to be in, or known not to be in, the target word.
make_new_game() superseded by new_wordler().

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("wordler", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("DavidASmith/wordler")

Development version from DavidASmith/wordler. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-wordler

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-wordler

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-wordler

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 1.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-04
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.1

READMEYes · 118 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.3.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 17
Examples that run: no examples
Exported functions with examples: 0%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

Introduction to wordler HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

2.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #21,262 · ~6/day · ~197/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

25730 days

62490 days

2.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on72 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

davidasmith/wordler ↗Account: DavidASmith

5Stars

1Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

1Releases

48Commits

2Commit identities

48 commits · Last activity 2022-03-31 · Default branch at 0.3.1.9001, ahead of CRAN 0.3.1 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 9
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/davidasmith/wordler on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing wordler adds 1 package (0 with compiled code, 39 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: crayon 39 KB.

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (1)

crayon

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

rmarkdown knitr testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

David Smith

Author, Maintainer since 0.3.1 (2022)

Gethin Davies

Contributor

Releases (1)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
R
R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
R
R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
R
R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
0.3.1Latest
record
2022-02-01 · current release
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18

Package metadata

First published: 2022-02-01
Total releases: 1 / 4 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Bundled data: 55 KB / 5 files
Download size: 75 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("wordler")

Format

Smith, D., & Davies, G. (2022). wordler: The 'WORDLE' Game (Version 0.3.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.wordler

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for wordler version 0.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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