R Observatory: Metrics for kst version 0.5-6

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

kst

0.5-6Package record

Knowledge Space Theory

0packages depend

6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Cord HockemeyerCRAN page ↗Website ↗

Knowledge space theory by Doignon and Falmagne (1999) doi:10.1007/978-3-642-58625-5 is a set- and order-theoretical framework, which proposes mathematical formalisms to operationalize knowledge structures in a particular domain. The 'kst' package provides basic functionalities to generate, handle, and manipulate knowledge structures and knowledge spaces.

Install

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

install.packages("kst", 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-kst

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-kst

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-kst

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: 1.9 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.5-6

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileNoWebsiteYes

Help pages: 21
Examples that run: 100%21 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 90%

Also includes 1 demo script (run with demo())

Vignettes (1)

KST PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #5,462 · ~17/day · ~502/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

70930 days

1.5K90 days

6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on103 r2u3 autocran133 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing kst adds 4 packages (3 with compiled code, 798 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: relations 405 KB, sets 269 KB, proxy 70 KB.

Depends (4)

R >= 4.1.0proxy relations sets

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

Rgraphviz

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Cord Hockemeyer

Author, Maintainer since 0.2-2 (2017) · added in 0.2-2

David Meyer

Author

Christina Stahl

Author

Previously maintained by Christina Stahl (0.1.7 to 0.2-1).

Releases (17)

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0.5-6Latest
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2026-10-04 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.5-5
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2026-03-09 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.5-4
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2022-10-24 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
knneighbourhood
0.5-3
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2022-07-13 · diff ↗
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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
0.5-2
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2019-04-07 · diff ↗
0.5-1
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2018-11-29 · diff ↗
0.5-0
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2018-09-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
kfamset, kfringe_inner, kfringe_outer
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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0.4-0
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2018-04-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
as.binaryMatrix, as.famset
0.3-1
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2018-02-26 · diff ↗
0.3-0
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2018-01-03 · diff ↗ ·
removed 2 exports
kfringe_inner, kfringe_outer

added 1 export
kneighbourhood
0.2-2
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2017-12-13 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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2014-01-11 · diff ↗
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
0.2-0
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2011-11-21 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
kfringe, kfringe_inner, kfringe_outer, kstructure_is_wellgraded, lpath, lpath_is_gradation
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
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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
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2009-06-24 · diff ↗
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R 2.9.0 released · 2009-04-17
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0.1.7
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2008-12-19
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R 2.8.0 released · 2008-10-20

Package metadata

First published: 2008-12-19
Total releases: 17 / 18 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 268 KB

Appears in task views

Psychometric Models and Methods

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("kst")

Format

Hockemeyer, C., Meyer, D., & Stahl, C. (2026). kst: Knowledge Space Theory (Version 0.5-6) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.kst

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for kst version 0.5-6 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-22. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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