R Observatory: Metrics for TheOrdinals version 0.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

TheOrdinals

0.1.0

Aggregation and Consensus Methods for Preference-Approvals

0packages depend

245downloads / year

54.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Maurizio RomanoFirst published 2026-07-111 releasesCRAN page ↗

Tools for aggregating ordinal preference data into a group consensus. The package implements DIVA (Divide and Conquer for Preference-Approvals), a distance-based aggregation method for preference-approvals, that is, preference data in which voters express both a (weak) ranking and an approval of the alternatives. The consensus is the preference-approval minimising the average distance to the set of voters, measured through the family of distances of Erdamar, Garcia-Lapresta, Perez-Roman and Sanver (2014) doi:10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2013.10.005. Methods and applications are described in Albano and Romano (2026) doi:10.1007/s11634-025-00663-4. The package is designed to be extended with further methods for ordinal preference data.

Install

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

install.packages("TheOrdinals", 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-theordinals

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-TheOrdinals

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-TheOrdinals

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.6 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.12

54.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

1

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
OK2026-07-12
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 258 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 60%

Downloads

245

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,448 · ~1/day · ~20/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (1)

ConsRank

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none

Suggests (3)

testthat knitr rmarkdown

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Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Maurizio Romano

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Maurizio Romano

Author, Maintainer

Alessandro Albano

Author

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

0.1.0Latest
2026-07-11 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-07-11
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 5.2 KB / 3 files
Download size: 35 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Romano, M., & Albano, A. (2026). TheOrdinals: Aggregation and Consensus Methods for Preference-Approvals (Version 0.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.TheOrdinals

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for TheOrdinals version 0.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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