R Observatory: Metrics for SHELF version 1.13.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

SHELF

1.13.0Package record

Tools to Support the Sheffield Elicitation Framework

4packages dependsuggested by 1

8.8Kdownloads / year

18.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jeremy OakleyCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Implements various methods for eliciting a probability distribution for a single parameter from an expert or a group of experts. The expert provides a small number of probability judgements, corresponding to points on his or her cumulative distribution function. A range of parametric distributions can then be fitted and displayed, with feedback provided in the form of fitted probabilities and percentiles. For multiple experts, a weighted linear pool can be calculated. Also includes functions for eliciting beliefs about population distributions; eliciting multivariate distributions using a Gaussian copula; eliciting a Dirichlet distribution; eliciting distributions for variance parameters in a random effects meta-analysis model; survival extrapolation. R Shiny apps for most of the methods are included.

Changes in 1.13.0

new tabs in survivalModelExtrapolations() for eliciting RIO judgements and comparing RIO to individual judgements
new app elicitSHELF() for implementing the main SHELF protocol (individual and RIO judgements) in one app
both survivalModelExtrapolations() and elicitSHELF() include new visualisation for eliciting RIO judgemetns, based on roulette
solver argument changed in sn::qsn() to make feedback more robust

From inst/NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("SHELF", 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("OakleyJ/SHELF")

Development version from OakleyJ/SHELF. 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-shelf

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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-SHELF

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-SHELF

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 4.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.13.0

READMENoVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 1.13.0Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 36 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%35 never run
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 66%
Help pages citing references: 6%

Vignettes (2)

Eliciting a Dirichlet Distribution HTML
Getting Started with SHELF HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

8.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,691 · ~24/day · ~731/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

69430 days

1.8K90 days

8.8K1 year

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Also on138 r2u4 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

oakleyj/shelf ↗Account: OakleyJ

23Stars

9Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

177Commits

11Commit identities

177 commits · Last activity 2026-04-02 · 0% stars, 30d

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 50%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 24
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-06-21 · 202026-09-04 · 23

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/oakleyj/shelf on 2026-10-18.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing SHELF adds 135 packages (71 with compiled code, 116 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (19)

flexsurv ggExtra ggplot2 ggrepel ggridgesgraphicsgrDevicesgridHmisc rmarkdown scales shiny shinyMatrix snstatssurvivalsurvminer tidyrutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

GGally knitr testthat vdiffr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

4direct

0indirect

Imports 4

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

DTEAssurance disbayes expertsurv convdistr

Suggests, most downloaded first

survextrap

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Jeremy Oakley

Author, Maintainer since 1.0.1 (2015)

Releases (18)

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R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.13.0Latest
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2026-04-04 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
elicitSHELF
1.12.1
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2025-11-17 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.12.0
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2025-03-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
makeSurvivalTable, survivalExtrapolatePlot
1.11.0
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2024-09-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
elicitSurvivalExtrapolation, survivalModelExtrapolations, survivalScenario
1.10.0
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2024-05-07 · diff ↗
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.9.0
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2023-06-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
compareGroupRIO
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.8.0
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2021-06-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
rlinearpool
R
R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
1.7.0
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2020-02-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
elicitMixture
1.6.0
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2019-06-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
elicitExtension, makeCDFPlot, plotConditionalDensities, plotConditionalMedianFunction, sampleMarginalFit

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R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
1.5.0
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2019-03-26 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
elicitBivariate, elicitDirichlet, elicitMultiple, sampleFit
1.4.0
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2018-08-16 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
condDirichlet, elicitQuartiles, elicitTertiles, generateReport, plotQuartiles, plotTertiles
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
1.3.0
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2017-10-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
elicitHeterogen, linearPoolDensity
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
1.2.3
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2017-02-11 · diff ↗
1.2.2
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2016-11-14 · diff ↗
1.2.1
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2016-10-03 · diff ↗
1.2.0
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2016-08-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 5 exports
compareIntervals, copulaSample, elicitConcProb, feedbackDirichlet, fitDirichlet
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
1.1.0
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2016-02-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
cdffeedback, cdfplot, fitprecision, pdfplots
1.0.1
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2015-07-07
R
R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16

Package metadata

First published: 2015-07-07
Total releases: 18 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 322 KB

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citation("SHELF")

Format

Oakley, J. (2026). SHELF: Tools to Support the Sheffield Elicitation Framework (Version 1.13.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.SHELF

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for SHELF version 1.13.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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