R Observatory: Metrics for formr version 1.1.0

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

formr

1.1.0Package record

Companion R Package for the 'formr' Survey Framework

0packages depend

1.5Kdownloads / year

45.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Ruben ArslanCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Serves as a companion toolkit for the 'formr' survey framework (https://rforms.org). The package acts as a bridge between a 'formr' server and a local R environment. Key features include an API client for fetching, type-casting, and automatically scoring data; a project management workflow for syncing study assets (surveys, CSS) for local editing; and functions for use within 'formr' runs to generate dynamic, personalized feedback plots and to simplify survey logic.

Changes in 1.1.0

**CRAN resubmission fixes (addressing the 1.0.0 review):**
Every exported function and method now documents its return value with \value, describing the class/structure and meaning of the output.
Functions no longer write informational output with cat()/print(). Progress and status messages now use message() and can be silenced with a new verbose argument; the warnings before destructive actions use warning(). The confirmation prompt now only appears in interactive sessions: destructive/overwriting calls (formr_api_delete_run(), formr_api_delete_survey(), formr_api_delete_all_files(), formr_api_backup_run(), formr_api_pull_project()) **error** in a non-interactive session rather than proceeding unattended — pass prompt = FALSE to confirm in scripts.

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New formr_default_dir() sets a session-wide default output directory. The writing helpers (formr_backup_study(), formr_backup_surveys(), formr_backup_files(), formr_api_backup_run(), formr_api_pull_project(), formr_api_push_project()) no longer default to the working directory: set formr_default_dir() once, or pass dir/save_path explicitly. In examples, vignettes and tests these write only to tempdir().
Vignettes now execute code — API calls are replayed offline from bundled vcr cassettes, and the reverse/aggregate pipeline runs on bundled example data — so users can run them and CRAN can test them.
\dontrun{} examples now begin with a one-line comment explaining why they are not run.
**formr_api_fetch_results() now defaults run_name to .formr$run_name**, matching formr_api_results() and formr_overview_sankey(). Code running inside an OpenCPU session on rforms.org can omit the argument; outside, the function errors with a clear message if the run name is unset.
**Vignette rework: run-r-inside-your-study.Rmd** gains end-to-end walkthroughs for the v1 API's cross-session data path -- a participant counter, real-time group norms, dynamic group balancing, and a waiting-room synchronisation pattern. Smaller clarifications in the fetch-and-process-results, manage-your-sessions, and manage-your-surveys vignettes.
**docs/ is no longer tracked.** Deployment to the pkgdown site is already handled by .github/workflows/pkgdown.yaml pushing to gh-pages, so the in-tree mirror was redundant and went stale on every PR.

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("formr", 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("rubenarslan/formr")

Development version from rubenarslan/formr. 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-formr

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-formr

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-formr

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: 3.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK7 OK2026-06-17

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.1.0

READMEYes · 277 wordsVignettesYes · 8 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.1.0Citation fileNoWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 104 (1 internal)
Examples that run: 60%34 run in a plain check · 23 never run
Exported functions with examples: 57%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (8)

How these are measured

Downloads

1.5K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #10,566 · ~4/day · ~123/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

34130 days

98090 days

1.5K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Repository

rubenarslan/formr ↗Account: rubenarslan

59Stars

4Forks

8Open issues

0Open PRs

11Releases

306Commits

5Commit identities

rconvenience-functionsformrsurvey-framework

306 commits · Last activity 2026-10-06 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.3.0, ahead of CRAN 1.1.0 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 85%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 150
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 1

Stars over time

2025-03-05 · 572026-07-07 · 59

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rubenarslan/formr 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)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-06 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-10-06

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

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Research and citation (1)

Zenodo

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RStudio project

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

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Claude Codefirst seen 2026-04-23
Seen in the repository: CLAUDE.md
Named in .Rbuildignore: .claude, CLAUDE.md
Named in .gitignore: .claude
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member
Commits: 3 by its own account · at least 21 crediting it in the message

Models named in its commits

Claude Opus 4.710 commits · May 2026
Claude Opus 4.85 commits · May to Jun 2026
Claude Fable 53 commits · Jul 2026
Claude Opus 5.52 commits · Oct 2026
Claude Sonnet 51 commit · Jul 2026

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

24 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing formr adds 74 packages (43 with compiled code, 50 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, bslib 5.6 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (21)

statsmethodstoolsutilsdplyr ggplot2 scales haven stringr tidyr knitr httr curl jsonlite lubridate rmarkdown otp keyring purrr readr rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (7)

testthat vcr mockery withr rstudioapi plotly commonmark

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Ruben Arslan

Author, Maintainer since 1.1.0 (2026)

Tim B Seidel

Author, Contributor

Releases (1)

1.1.0Latest
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2026-06-16 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-06-16
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 480 KB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("formr")

Format

Arslan, R., & Seidel, T. B. (2026). formr: Companion R Package for the 'formr' Survey Framework (Version 1.1.0) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.formr

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for formr version 1.1.0 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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