Count the Scrabble letter values of text

Source: R/nscrabble.R

Tally the Scrabble letter values of text given a user-supplied function, such as the sum (default) or mean of the character values.

nscrabble(x, FUN = sum)

Arguments

x

a character vector
FUN

function to be applied to the character values in the text; default is sum, but could also be mean or a user-supplied function

Value

a (named) integer vector of Scrabble letter values, computed using FUN, corresponding to the input text(s)

Note

Character values are only defined for non-accented Latin a-z, A-Z letters. Lower-casing is unnecessary.

We would be happy to add more languages to this extremely useful function if you send us the values for your language!

Author

Kenneth Benoit

Examples

nscrabble(c("muzjiks", "excellency"))

#> [1] 29 24
nscrabble(texts(data_corpus_inaugural)[1:5], mean)

#> 1789-Washington 1793-Washington      1797-Adams  1801-Jefferson  1805-Jefferson 
#>        1.706789        1.721875        1.624590        1.678183        1.663654