simple.chutes {UsingR} | R Documentation

## simulate a chutes and ladder game

### Description

This function will simulate a chutes and ladder game. It returns a trajectory for a single player. Optionally it can return the transition matrix which can be used to speed up the simulation.

### Usage

    simple.chutes(sim=FALSE, return.cl=FALSE, cl=make.cl())

### Arguments

`sim` | Set to TRUE to return a trajectory.
`return.cl` | Set to TRUE to return a transistion matrix
`cl` | set to the chutes and ladders transition matrix

### Details

To make a chutes and ladders trajectory

simple.chutes(sim=TRUE)

To return the game board

simple.chutes(return.cl=TRUE)

when doing a lot of simulations, it may be best to pass in the game board

cl <- simple.chutes(return.cl=TRUE) simple.chutes(sim=TRUE,cl)

### Value

returns a trajectory as a vector, or a matrix if asked to return the transition matrix

### Author(s)

John Verzani

### References

board from http://www.ahs.uwaterloo.ca/~musuem/vexhibit/Whitehill/snakes/snakes.gif

### Examples

    plot(simple.chutes(sim=TRUE))

[Package UsingR version 0.1-4 Index]