R Observatory: Metrics for TestGardener version 3.3.6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

TestGardener

3.3.6Package record

Information Analysis for Test and Rating Scale Data

0packages depend

3.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by James RamsayCRAN page ↗

Develop, evaluate, and score multiple choice examinations, psychological scales, questionnaires, and similar types of data involving sequences of choices among one or more sets of answers. This version of the package should be considered as brand new. Almost all of the functions have been changed, including their argument list. See the file NEWS.Rd in the Inst folder for more information. Using the package does not require any formal statistical knowledge beyond what would be provided by a first course in statistics in a social science department. There the user would encounter the concept of probability and how it is used to model data and make decisions, and would become familiar with basic mathematical and statistical notation. Most of the output is in graphical form.

Install

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

install.packages("TestGardener", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-testgardener

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-TestGardener

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-TestGardener

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: 4.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 3.3.6

READMEYes · 101 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · does not mention 3.3.6Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 43includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 82%23 run in a plain check · 2 never run · 3 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 76%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 97%
Help pages citing references: 84%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,773 · ~11/day · ~327/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

42230 days

97090 days

3.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on80 r2u2 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing TestGardener adds 120 packages (66 with compiled code, 112 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (4)

R >= 3.5fda ggplot2 plotly

Imports (8)

dplyr ggpubr stringr tidyr pracma utf8 knitr rmarkdown

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (5)

James Ramsay

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.4 (2021)

Spencer Graves

Contributor · added in 3.1.0

Juan Li

Contributor

Joakim Wallmark

Contributor · added in 3.1.0

Marie Wiberg

Contributor · added in 3.1.0

Releases (17)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
3.3.6Latest
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2025-10-15 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
3.3.5
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2024-09-18 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
Sbinsmth.init, surp.fit
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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2024-03-20 · diff ↗
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3.3.0
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2023-11-28 · diff ↗
3.2.7
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2023-11-24 · diff ↗ ·
removed 21 exports
ArcLength.plot, DHfun, Entropy.plot, Hcurve, Hfun, Hfuns.plot, ICC.plot, make.dataList, mu.plot, Power.plot, Sensitivity.plot, testscore, theta.distn, theta2arclen, thetafun, thetasearch, Usimulate, Wpca, Wpca.plot, Wbinsmth, Wbinsmth_nom

added 22 exports
chcemat_simulate, DFfun, Entropy_plot, Fcurve, Ffun, Ffuns_plot, ICC_plot, index_distn, index2info, index_fun, index_search, make_dataList, mu, mu_plot, Power_plot, Scope_plot, Sensitivity_plot, Spca, Spca_plot, Sbinsmth, Sbinsmth_nom, TG_analysis
3.2.6
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Wpca
3.2.5
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plotCore, plotICC
3.2.4
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2023-08-24 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
eval_surp

added 4 exports
eval.surp, plotCore, plotICC, smooth.surp
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ICC.fit

added 3 exports
eval_surp, TestInfo_svd, Wbinsmth_nom
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
3.1.4
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2023-01-15 · diff ↗

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3.1.1
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2022-12-19 · diff ↗
3.1.0
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2022-11-24 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
ConditionalSimulation

added 4 exports
dataSimulation, entropies, Hcurve, thetasearch
3.0.0
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2022-06-26 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
Wbinsmth.init, Wbinsmth.plot

added 3 exports
density_plot, ICC.fit, ICC.plot
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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removed 4 exports
dataSimulation, dataSimulation.plot, eval.surp, smooth.surp

added 3 exports
ConditionalSimulation, TG_density.fd, Wbinsmth.init
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.1.4
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2021-04-19
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2021-04-19
Total releases: 17 / 5 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Bundled data: 513 KB / 5 files
Download size: 607 KB

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Format

Ramsay, J., Graves, S., Li, J., Wallmark, J., & Wiberg, M. (2025). TestGardener: Information Analysis for Test and Rating Scale Data (Version 3.3.6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.TestGardener

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for TestGardener version 3.3.6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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