R Observatory: Metrics for mirtCAT version 1.14

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

mirtCAT

1.14Package record

Computerized Adaptive Testing with Multidimensional Item Response Theory

3packages dependsuggested by 3

38.4Kdownloads / year

0.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Phil ChalmersCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Provides tools to generate HTML interfaces for adaptive and non-adaptive tests using the shiny package (Chalmers (2016) doi:10.18637/jss.v071.i05). Suitable for applying unidimensional and multidimensional computerized adaptive tests (CAT) using item response theory methodology and for creating simple questionnaires forms to collect response data directly in R. Additionally, optimal test designs (e.g., "shadow testing") are supported for tests that contain a large number of item selection constraints. Finally, package contains tools useful for performing Monte Carlo simulations for studying test item banks.

Changes in 1.14

The shinyGUI list's forced_choice global specification in mirtCAT() has now been deprecated in favor of including this information in the df object. This allows explicit selection of which items should be presented in a forced choice format (requested by Levent on the mirt-package forum)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("mirtCAT", 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("philchalmers/mirtCAT")

Development version from philchalmers/mirtCAT. 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-mirtcat

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-mirtCAT

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-mirtCAT

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: 4.4 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-05-02
ERROR11 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-25
OK14 OK2026-04-22

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ERROR13 OK, 1 ERROR2026-04-18
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.14

READMEYes · 163 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.14Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Cites a JSS article

Help pages: 13includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%10 never run
Exported functions with examples: 83%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 50%
Help pages citing references: 85%

Vignettes (1)

Online Vignettes

How these are measured

Downloads

38.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,306 · ~105/day · ~3.2K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.7K30 days

7.4K90 days

38.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on404 r2u6 autocran1.5K conda_forge132 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

philchalmers/mirtcat ↗Account: philchalmers

102Stars

27Forks

2Open issues

0Open PRs

19Releases

571Commits

4Commit identities

irtcatr

571 commits · Last activity 2025-06-16 · 0% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.14.3, ahead of CRAN 1.14 (checked 2026-10-21)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 60%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 2
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-09-03 · 1002026-08-07 · 102

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 4 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/philchalmers/mirtcat on 2026-10-21.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsTravis CI (config file)

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2025-06-16 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

10 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing mirtCAT adds 86 packages (44 with compiled code, 47 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: bslib 5.6 MB, promises 3.1 MB, sass 2.9 MB.

Depends (2)

mirt shiny

Imports (7)

latticestatsRcppmethodsmarkdown pbapply lpSolve

LinkingTo (2)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo

Suggests (3)

shinythemesparallelknitr

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

3direct

0indirect

Imports 3

Suggested by 3

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

SIAmodules simCAT irtawsi

Suggests, most downloaded first

mirt TestDesign eyeprocess

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Phil Chalmers

Author, Maintainer since 0.1 (2014)

Magnus Nordmo

Contributor · added in 1.11

Releases (29)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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createSessionName
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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added 1 export
get_mirtCAT_env

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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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added 2 exports
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findNextItem, updateDesign
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Package metadata

First published: 2014-08-14
Total releases: 29 / 12 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Download size: 1.8 MB

Appears in task views

Psychometric Models and Methods

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("mirtCAT")

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

It points to 10.18637/jss.v071.i05.

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 mirtCAT version 1.14 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-24. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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