R Observatory: Metrics for eirm version 0.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

eirm

0.5Package record

Explanatory Item Response Modeling for Dichotomous and Polytomous Items

0packages depend

3.3Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Okan BulutCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Analysis of dichotomous and polytomous response data using the explanatory item response modeling framework, as described in Bulut, Gorgun, & Yildirim-Erbasli (2021) doi:10.3390/psych3030023, Stanke & Bulut (2019) doi:10.21449/ijate.515085, and De Boeck & Wilson (2004) doi:10.1007/978-1-4757-3990-9. Generalized linear mixed modeling is used for estimating the effects of item-related and person-related variables on dichotomous and polytomous item responses.

Changes in 0.5

A bug in the polyreformat function was fixed.
A new citation for eirm was included.
The blme package was linked with eirm for Maximum a posteriori estimation in a Bayesian setting. See the engine option in the eirm function.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("eirm", 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("okanbulut/eirm")

Development version from okanbulut/eirm. 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-eirm

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-eirm

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-eirm

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Okan Bulut <bulut@ualberta.ca>’

Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style personList() or
as.personList().  Please use c() on person objects instead.
Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry().  Please
use bibentry() instead.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.5Citation fileYes · cites a publication

Help pages: 10 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 67%4 run in a plain check · 1 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 80%
Documented parameters: 81%
Return-value docs: 75%
Help pages citing references: 10%

Vignettes (1)

Using eirm for estimating explanatory IRT models HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

3.3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #14,087 · ~9/day · ~272/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

30430 days

83690 days

3.3K1 year

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Also on452 r2u5 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

okanbulut/eirm ↗Account: okanbulut

8Stars

4Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

166Commits

1Commit identities

166 commits · Last activity 2023-02-28

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: not measured
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2024-07-02 · 82026-07-07 · 8

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/okanbulut/eirm on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

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

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2023-02-28

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing eirm adds 72 packages (34 with compiled code, 67 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, bslib 5.6 MB.

Depends (4)

lme4 blme reshape2 optimx

Imports (7)

magrittr shiny shinydashboard shinycssloaders readxl ggeffects ggplot2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

knitr rmarkdown

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 (1)

Okan Bulut

Author, Maintainer since 0.2.0 (2020)

Releases (4)

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Package metadata

First published: 2020-10-27
Total releases: 4 / 6 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Bundled data: 15 KB / 2 files
Download size: 37 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("eirm")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.5281/zenodo.4556285, 10.3390/psych3030023, 10.21449/ijate.515085.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for eirm version 0.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-23, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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