R Observatory: Metrics for ShortForm version 0.5.8

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

ShortForm

0.5.8

Automatic Short Form Creation

0packages depend

3.1Kdownloads / year

16.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Anthony RabornFirst published 2017-10-2015 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Performs automatic creation of short forms of scales with an ant colony optimization algorithm and a Tabu search. As implemented in the package, the ant colony algorithm randomly selects items to build a model of a specified length, then updates the probability of item selection according to the fit of the best model within each set of searches. The algorithm continues until the same items are selected by multiple ants a given number of times in a row. On the other hand, the Tabu search changes one parameter at a time to be either free, constrained, or fixed while keeping track of the changes made and putting changes that result in worse fit in a "tabu" list so that the algorithm does not revisit them for some number of searches. See Leite, Huang, & Marcoulides (2008) doi:10.1080/00273170802285743 for an applied example of the ant colony algorithm, and Marcoulides & Falk (2018) doi:10.1080/10705511.2017.1409074 for an applied example of the Tabu search.

Install

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

install.packages("ShortForm", 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("AnthonyRaborn/ShortForm")

Development version from AnthonyRaborn/ShortForm. 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-shortform

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-ShortForm

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-ShortForm

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.31

16.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 56%
Documented parameters: 79%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 18%

Downloads

3.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,591 · ~8/day · ~257/mo

Releases R versions

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15330 days

72890 days

3.1K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ anthonyraborn/shortform

10Stars

2Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

14Releases

519Commits

3Contributors

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519 commits · Last activity 2026-08-14

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

4 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/anthonyraborn/shortform on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Dockerfile

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (7)

lavaan stringrmethodsdoSNOWparallelforeach rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

knitr MplusAutomation rmarkdown testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Anthony Raborn

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Anthony Raborn

Author, Maintainer

Walter Leite

Author

Package Timeline

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

0.5.8Latest
2026-05-06 · current release · diff ↗
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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
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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2020-02-25 · diff ↗

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0.4.4
2019-10-10 · diff ↗
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2019-08-07 · diff ↗
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2018-10-17 · diff ↗
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2018-06-13 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
0.4.0
2018-03-30 · diff ↗
0.3.0
2017-10-20
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2017-10-20
Total releases: 15 / 9 yrs
License: LGPL (>= 2.0, < 3) | Mozilla Public License
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 17 KB / 3 files
Download size: 104 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("ShortForm")

Format

Raborn, A., & Leite, W. (2026). ShortForm: Automatic Short Form Creation (Version 0.5.8) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.ShortForm

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for ShortForm version 0.5.8 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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