Block 2, Task 1: Create a Program to Assign Students to Groups

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Create a program to assign students to groups. Assign a type of card and a color (clubs, spades, hearts, diamonds) to each student. Make sure to have equally sized groups as much as possible.

Create a reproducible example to show how your code works.

Bonus: Use the GitHub API to get usernames from github.
If you submit your work before the next session, it will help to give you feedback and discuss the code.

Note: This task is a little harder and a bit less of a Mickey Mouse example in the sense that splitting up actually makes sense. Someone on the team could read through the github documentation and figure out how to extract usernames from the API. 1-2 others could think of the problem itself.

Hint:

The following ingredients can be handy to implement the above in R:

• sample function sample()
• length function length()
• names function names()
• rounding functions like ceiling or floor. ceiling(), floor()
• lists list()
• for loops

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To skip the GitHub API part for starters, generate a vector of student names, e.g.,

nms <- paste("student", c(LETTERS,letters)[1:20], sep = " ")

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For 20 students, the result could look something like this:

{
    "Aces": {
        "Club": "student F",
        "Spade": "student K",
        "Heart": "student O",
        "Diamond": "student Q"
    },
    "Kings": {
        "Club": "student G",
        "Spade": "student N",
        "Heart": "student R",
        "Diamond": "student T"
    },
    "Queens": {
        "Club": "student H",
        "Spade": "student M",
        "Heart": "student B",
        "Diamond": "student D"
    },
    "Jacks": {
        "Club": "student A",
        "Spade": "student E",
        "Heart": "student I",
        "Diamond": "student P"
    },
    "Tens": {
        "Club": "student J",
        "Spade": "student L",
        "Heart": "student C",
        "Diamond": "student S"
    }
}