R Observatory: Metrics for plink version 1.5-1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

plink

1.5-1Package record

IRT Separate Calibration Linking Methods

1packages dependsuggested by 1

36.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

9/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Jonathan P. WeeksCRAN page ↗

Item response theory based methods are used to compute linking constants and conduct chain linking of unidimensional or multidimensional tests for multiple groups under a common item design. The unidimensional methods include the Mean/Mean, Mean/Sigma, Haebara, and Stocking-Lord methods for dichotomous (1PL, 2PL and 3PL) and/or polytomous (graded response, partial credit/generalized partial credit, nominal, and multiple-choice model) items. The multidimensional methods include the least squares method and extensions of the Haebara and Stocking-Lord method using single or multiple dilation parameters for multidimensional extensions of all the unidimensional dichotomous and polytomous item response models. The package also includes functions for importing item and/or ability parameters from common IRT software, conducting IRT true score and observed score equating, and plotting item response curves/surfaces, vector plots, information plots, and comparison plots for examining parameter drift.

Install

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

install.packages("plink", 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-plink

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-plink

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-plink

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

4NOTE9OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Jonathan P. Weeks <weeksjp@gmail.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = c("Jonathan", "P."),
                    family = "Weeks",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "weeksjp@gmail.com")
as necessary.

Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style personList() or
as.personList().  Please use c() on person objects instead.
Package CITATION file contains call(s) to old-style citEntry().  Please
use bibentry() instead.

NOTERd filesr-oldrel-macos-arm64, r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

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CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.1 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE9 OK, 4 NOTE2026-06-27
WARNING8 OK, 4 NOTE, 1 WARNING2026-06-14
NOTE6 OK, 8 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.5-1

READMENoVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 33% structuredCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 33includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%14 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 50%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 48%

Vignettes (1)

plink: An R Package for Linking Mixed-Format Tests Using IRT-Based Methods PDF

How these are measured

Downloads

36.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,385 · ~100/day · ~3K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

2.5K30 days

7K90 days

36.4K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

1 external dependency (excludes base and recommended)

Installing plink adds 1 package (1 with compiled code, 91 KB of source tarballs). Heaviest: statmod 91 KB.

Depends (3)

R >= 3.3.3methodslattice

Imports (2)

MASSstatmod

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

Imports 1

Suggested by 1

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

PROsetta

Suggests, most downloaded first

mirt

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (1)

Jonathan P. Weeks

· added in 1.0.0

Maintainer since 0.0-0 (2007)

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Jonathan Weeks

no longer listed · 0.0-0 to 0.1-1

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Package metadata

First published: 2007-09-04
Total releases: 29 / 19 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.3.3
Bundled data: 32 KB / 1 file
Download size: 631 KB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for plink version 1.5-1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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