words

1.0.1

List of English Words from the Scrabble Dictionary

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Overview

About

Maintained by Conor NeilsonFirst published 2021-05-171 releasesCRAN page ↗

List of english scrabble words as listed in the OTCWL2014 https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/w/Official_Tournament_and_Club_Word_List_2014_Edition. Words are collated from the 'Word Game Dictionary' https://www.wordgamedictionary.com/word-lists/.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

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

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

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-words

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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

# 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-words

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 39 s · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Check history

OK2026-07-16
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-07-15
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Conor Neilson

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Conor Neilson

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Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.0.1Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2021-05-17
Total releases: 1 / 5 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 648 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
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