R Observatory: Metrics for aspect version 1.0-7

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

aspect

1.0-7

A General Framework for Multivariate Analysis with Optimal Scaling

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9.9Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Patrick MairFirst published 2009-03-149 releasesCRAN page ↗

Contains various functions for optimal scaling. One function performs optimal scaling by maximizing an aspect (i.e. a target function such as the sum of eigenvalues, sum of squared correlations, squared multiple correlations, etc.) of the corresponding correlation matrix. Another function performs implements the LINEALS approach for optimal scaling by minimization of an aspect based on pairwise correlations and correlation ratios. The resulting correlation matrix and category scores can be used for further multivariate methods such as structural equation models.

Install

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

install.packages("aspect", 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-aspect

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-aspect

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-aspect

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

Health

CRAN checks

5NOTE8OK

Failing flavors

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Slowest check: 53 s · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

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Dependencies · direct

Check history

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Documentation

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Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 83%

Downloads

9.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #4,591 · ~27/day · ~826/mo

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Repository

Repository ↗ projects/psychor

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.0.0

Imports (3)

statsgraphicsgrDevices

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

sem polycor

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

1indirect

SEMgraph

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Patrick Mair

Maintainer, Author

Authors (2)

Patrick Mair

Maintainer, Author

Jan De Leeuw

Author

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Kurt Hornik

no longer listed · 1.0-2

De Leeuw

no longer listed · 1.0-3 to 1.0-7

Package Timeline

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

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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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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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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

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Package metadata

First published: 2009-03-14
Total releases: 9 / 17 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0.0
Bundled data: 15 KB / 3 files
Download size: 30 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Psychometric Models and Methods

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Format

Mair, P., & De Leeuw, J. (2025). aspect: A General Framework for Multivariate Analysis with Optimal Scaling (Version 1.0-7) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.aspect

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