R Observatory: Metrics for coldstart version 0.2.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

coldstart

0.2.0Package record

Calibrating Generated Items Before Pretesting with Predicted Priors

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260downloads / year

89.5%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Daniel EdiCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Predicts Rasch item difficulty from item features (text embeddings from any model, template family, content metadata) by ridge regression (Hoerl and Kennard, 1970, doi:10.1080/00401706.1970.10488634) with honest out-of-sample uncertainty, uses the predictions as robust informative priors to calibrate new items from small pretest samples, in the spirit of using collateral information in calibration (Mislevy, Sheehan and Wingersky, 1993, doi:10.1111/j.1745-3984.1993.tb00422.x), plans the pretest sample size needed for a target precision, and diagnoses item families whose predictions cannot be trusted.

Changes in 0.2.0

cs_check() now accounts for prediction error shared by all items of a family (the unseen family's unknown effect, or the estimation error of a seen family's effect). predict() returns this as sd_shared, estimated from the cross-validation and leave-one-family-out residuals, and cs_calibrate() carries it as prior_sd_shared. Previously a family unseen in training was falsely flagged 3-7% of the time at alpha = 0.01; it is now flagged at about the nominal rate. Seen families, detection of drifted families and calibration accuracy are unchanged. Calibrations without the new column behave exactly as before.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("coldstart", 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("edidatasolutions/coldstart")

Development version from edidatasolutions/coldstart. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

# 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-coldstart

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-coldstart

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

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Slowest check: 2.0 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OKNow
OK2 OK2026-10-07

Advisories

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Documentation

In release 0.2.0

READMEYes · 460 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 8
Examples that run: 100%8 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 76%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

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Calibrating generated items with predicted priors HTML

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Downloads

260

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #25,409 · ~1/day · ~22/mo

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edidatasolutions/coldstart ↗Account: edidatasolutions

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Last activity 2026-10-21 · Default branch at 0.2.0.9000, ahead of CRAN 0.2.0 (checked 2026-10-21)

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

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The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

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R >= 4.1

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0.1.0
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2026-10-07 ·
3 days in CRAN's queue
Listed in CRAN's incoming queue from 2026-10-03 21:57 to 2026-10-07 06:45 UTC, in 16 readings.
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Across CRAN, the median accepted release of the past year spent 23 hours in the queue, 90% under 11 days.How queue time is measured

Package metadata

First published: 2026-10-07
Total releases: 2 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1
Download size: 27 KB

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Format

Edi, D. (2026). coldstart: Calibrating Generated Items Before Pretesting with Predicted Priors (Version 0.2.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.coldstart

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for coldstart version 0.2.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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