R Observatory: Metrics for Dire version 2.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Dire

2.2.0

Linear Regressions with a Latent Outcome Variable

1packages depend

7.3Kdownloads / year

51.1%test coverage

8/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Paul BaileyFirst published 2021-03-226 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Fit latent variable linear models, estimating score distributions for groups of people, following Cohen and Jiang (1999) doi:10.2307/2669917. In this model, a latent distribution is conditional on students item response, item characteristics, and conditioning variables the user includes. This latent trait is then integrated out. This software is intended to fit the same models as the existing software 'AM' https://am.air.org/. As of version 2, also allows the user to draw plausible values.

Install

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

install.packages("Dire", 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("American-Institutes-for-Research/Dire")

Development version from American-Institutes-for-Research/Dire. 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-dire

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

# 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-Dire

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-Dire

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

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
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NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 7.7 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.35

51.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

8

Dependencies · direct

Check history

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Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

7.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,238 · ~20/day · ~610/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ american-institutes-for-research/dire

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0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

26Commits

3Contributors

26 commits · Last activity 2025-09-19

Stars over time

2021-03-22 · 12026-07-07 · 1

Repository practices

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Checks run against github.com/american-institutes-for-research/dire on 2026-08-09.

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.0.0

Imports (8)

foreach iteratorsmethodsMatrixhaven Rcpp lbfgsMASS

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (7)

knitr rmarkdown testthat withr doParallelparallelEdSurvey

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

1indirect

EdSurvey

Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)

Maintainer (1)

Paul Bailey

Author, Maintainer

Authors (4)

Author, Maintainer

Author

Author

Author

Contributors (2)

Claire Kelley

Contributor

Blue Webb

Contributor · added in 2.2.0

Other (1)

Emmanuel Sikali

pdr · added in 1.0.3

Package Timeline

6 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.1.1
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2.1.0
2022-06-30 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
2.0.1
2022-04-19 · diff ↗
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
1.0.3
2021-04-03 · diff ↗
1.0.2
2021-03-22
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-03-22
Total releases: 6 / 5 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0.0
Download size: 195 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Psychometric Models and Methods

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Bailey, P., Buehler, E., Doran, H., Kelley, C., Lee, S., Sikali, E., & Webb, B. (2023). Dire: Linear Regressions with a Latent Outcome Variable (Version 2.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.Dire

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for Dire version 2.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-15. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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