R Observatory: Metrics for likert version 1.3.5.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

likert

1.3.5.1Package record

Analysis and Visualization Likert Items

1packages dependsuggested by 2

54.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jason BryerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

An approach to analyzing Likert response items, with an emphasis on visualizations. The stacked bar plot is the preferred method for presenting Likert results. Tabular results are also implemented along with density plots to assist researchers in determining whether Likert responses can be used quantitatively instead of qualitatively. See the likert(), summary.likert(), and plot.likert() functions to get started.

Install

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

install.packages("likert", 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("jbryer/likert")

Development version from jbryer/likert. 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-likert

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-likert

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-likert

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: 2.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-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 1.3.5.1

README· In the repository, left out of the releaseVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileNo

Help pages: 31 (1 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%3 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 38%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 25%
Help pages citing references: 23%

Also includes 6 demo scripts (run with demo())

Vignettes (1)

Examples of likert Tables PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

54.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,992 · ~148/day · ~4.5K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

3.2K30 days

9.4K90 days

54.2K1 year

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Also on197 r2u7 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

jbryer/likert ↗Account: jbryer

322Stars

122Forks

31Open issues

2Open PRs

0Releases

201Commits

18Commit identities

data-sciencervisualization

201 commits · Last activity 2025-03-26 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 2.0.1, ahead of CRAN 1.3.5.1 (checked 2026-10-22)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 49%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 343
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 161

Stars over time

2025-10-20 · 3132026-09-04 · 322

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

5 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/jbryer/likert on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)

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

Docs source (2)

README.Rmd

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-03-25

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing likert adds 28 packages (13 with compiled code, 31 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (3)

R >= 3.0ggplot2 xtable

Imports (5)

psych reshape2 gridExtragridplyr

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (2)

devtools shiny

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 2

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

codebook

Suggests, most downloaded first

psychotools forwards

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (2)

Jason Bryer

Author, Maintainer since 1.1 (2013)

Kimberly Speerschneider

Author

Releases (8)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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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
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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
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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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
3.0.2Latest
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2013-09-20 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 8 exports
likert, likert.bar.plot, likert.density.plot, likert.heat.plot, likert.histogram.plot, recode, reverse.levels, shinyLikert
1.3.5.1
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2025-08-02 · diff ↗
1.3.5
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2016-12-31 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
likert.options

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1.3.3
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2015-12-15 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
shinyLikert
1.3.1
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2015-11-03 · diff ↗
1.3.0
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2015-10-23 · diff ↗
1.2
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2014-10-17 · diff ↗
1.1
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2013-09-25
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03

Package metadata

First published: 2013-09-20
Total releases: 8 / 13 yrs
License: GPL
Minimum R: ≥ 3.0
Bundled data: 1.6 MB / 7 files
Download size: 1.6 MB

Cite

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("likert")

Format

Bryer, J., & Speerschneider, K. (2025). likert: Analysis and Visualization Likert Items (Version 1.3.5.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.likert

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for likert version 1.3.5.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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