R Observatory: Metrics for exams version 2.4-5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

exams

2.4-5Package record

Automatic Generation of Exams in R

9packages dependsuggested by 2

40.9Kdownloads / year

4.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Achim ZeileisCRAN page ↗Codeberg ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Automatic generation of exams based on exercises in Markdown or LaTeX format, possibly including R code for dynamic generation of exercise elements. Exercise types include single-choice and multiple-choice questions, arithmetic problems, string questions, and combinations thereof (cloze). Output formats include standalone files (PDF, HTML, Docx, ODT, ...), Moodle XML, QTI 1.2, QTI 2.1, Blackboard, Canvas, OpenOlat, ILIAS, TestVision, Particify, ARSnova, Kahoot!, Grasple, and TCExam. In addition to fully customizable PDF exams, a standardized PDF format (NOPS) is provided that can be printed, scanned, and automatically evaluated.

Changes in 2.4-5

Code repository changed from R-Forge to Codeberg at: <https://codeberg.org/zeileis/exams/>
The exams2ilias() function in the exams package had been added during the COVID-19 pandemic but it is not actively maintained anymore. A better implementation with more features is available in the package exams2ilias which will also be improved in the future.
Cloze exercises with a single string item containing a regular expression with a | are now processed correctly (reported by Stefan Jansen).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("exams", 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-exams

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-exams

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-exams

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: 7.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
OK13 OK2026-06-27
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-06-14
OK13 OK2026-06-09

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ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
OK13 OK2026-05-17
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-05-06
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.4-5

READMEYes · 198 wordsVignettesYes · 2 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 2.4-5Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 44
Examples that run: 77%33 run in a plain check (5 of them under a condition) · 4 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 5 never run · 1 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 98%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 86%
Help pages citing references: 32%

Vignettes (2)

How these are measured

Downloads

40.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,152 · ~112/day · ~3.4K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.3K30 days

8.2K90 days

40.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on337 r2u4 autocran191 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

codeberg.org/zeileis/exams ↗

Responsiveness

not measured

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

Repository codeberg.org/zeileis/exams is linked, but repository-practices checks have not run for it yet. Checks are GitHub-only for now.

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing exams adds 25 packages (14 with compiled code, 18 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, sass 2.9 MB, rmarkdown 2.1 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (8)

graphicsgrDevicesstatstoolsutilsbase64enc knitr rmarkdown

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

clipr magick openxlsxparallelpng qpdf RCurl RJSONIO tinytex tth xml2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

9direct

0indirect

Depends 4 · Imports 5

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

rqti exams2forms exams.mylearn BiMaUmisc exams2sakai exams.forge.data exams2ilias exams2learnr pafdR

Suggests, most downloaded first

Ryacas exams.forge

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (11)

Achim Zeileis

Author, Maintainer since 0.9-0 (2008)

Bettina Gruen

Author

Friedrich Leisch

Author · added in 1.9-2

Niels Smits

Author · added in 2.2-0

Nikolaus Umlauf

Author · added in 1.9-2

Sebastian Bachler

Contributor · added in 2.4-2

Dominik Ernst

Contributor · added in 2.0-1

Patrik Keller

Contributor · added in 2.3-1

Kenji Sato

Contributor · added in 2.3-5

Reto Stauffer

Contributor · added in 2.3-1

Florian Wickelmaier

Contributor · added in 2.4-0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Mirko Birbaumer

no longer listed · 2.2-1 to 2.4-4

Releases (32)

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2.4-5Latest
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2026-10-08 · current release · diff ↗
2.4-4
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2026-07-31 · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
2.4-3
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2025-12-23 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
add_cloze, format_metainfo, initialize_exercise, match_exams_markup, exams2ans, exams2wooclap
2.4-2
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2025-04-29 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
match_exams_iteration
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
2.4-1
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2024-07-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
nops_fix
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
2.4-0
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2022-10-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 10 exports
openolat_config, exams2ilias, moodle2exams, exams2particify, exams2kahoot, exams2testvision, make_itembody_testvision, testvision2exams, exams2grasple, make_exams_write_grasple
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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
2.3-6
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2020-04-06 · diff ↗
2.3-5
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2020-04-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
expar, nops_eval_write, nops_language
2.3-4
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2019-07-06 · diff ↗

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2.3-3
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2019-07-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
exams2canvas
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
2.3-2
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2018-12-08 · diff ↗
2.3-1
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2018-05-12 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
include_tikz, match_exams_device, exams2openolat
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
2.3-0
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2017-09-23 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
2.2-1
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2017-03-17 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
match_exams_call, stresstest_exercise, exams2pandoc
2.2-0
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2016-11-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
num2tol, num2schoice, det2schoice, matrix2schoice, matrix2mchoice, include_supplement, exams2blackboard, make_itembody_blackboard
R
R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
2.1-0
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2015-11-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 17 exports
round2, fmt, char_with_braces, num_to_tol, num_to_schoice, det_to_schoice, matrix_to_schoice, matrix_to_mchoice, xweave, make_exercise_transform_pandoc, exams2nops, make_nops_template, nops_scan, nops_eval, exams2arsnova, make_exams_write_arsnova, exams2tcexam
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
2.0-2
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2015-01-14 · diff ↗
2.0-1
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2014-12-26 · diff ↗
2.0-0
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2014-06-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
extract_extra, exams2qti21, make_itembody_qti21, make_question_moodle
R
R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
1.9-6
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2013-06-06 · diff ↗
1.9-5
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2013-06-04 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
exams_eval, exams_skeleton, exams.skeleton
R
R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
1.9-4
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2013-03-15 · diff ↗
1.9-3
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2013-02-11 · diff ↗
1.9-2
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2013-01-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 20 exports
answerlist, xexams, exams_metainfo, read_exercise, read_metainfo, extract_command, extract_environment, extract_items, tex2image, exams2pdf, make_exams_write_pdf, exams2html, make_exercise_transform_html, make_exams_write_html, exams2qti12, make_itembody_qti12, exams2lops, make_exams_write_lops, exams2moodle, make_question_moodle23
1.9-1
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2012-12-18 · diff ↗
1.9-0
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2012-12-17 · diff ↗
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
1.0-4
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2011-08-22 · diff ↗
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
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R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26
1.0-2
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2009-09-03 · diff ↗
1.0-1
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2009-06-24 · diff ↗
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R 2.9.0 released · 2009-04-17
1.0-0
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2009-02-20 · diff ↗
0.9-5
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2009-02-12 · diff ↗
0.9-0
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2008-11-10
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R 2.8.0 released · 2008-10-20

Package metadata

First published: 2008-11-10
Total releases: 32 / 18 yrs
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 1.8 MB

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Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("exams")

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

It points to 10.18637/jss.v029.i10, 10.18637/jss.v058.i01.

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for exams version 2.4-5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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