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Response Probability Functions

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234.2Kdownloads / year
68.2%test coverage
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Overview

About

Factor out logic and math common to Item Factor Analysis fitting, diagnostics, and analysis. It is envisioned as core support code suitable for more specialized IRT packages to build upon. Complete access to optimized C functions are made available with R_RegisterCCallable(). This software is described in Pritikin & Falk (2020) doi:10.1177/0146621620929431.

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NOTER code for possible problemsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc, r-devel-windows-x86_64
Found calls to structure() using deprecated special names:
  rpf/tests/testthat/test-extreme.R (.Dim: 3, .Dimnames: 3)
  rpf/tests/testthat/test-fit.R (.Dim: 2)
  rpf/tests/testthat/test-null.R (.Dim: 3, .Dimnames: 3, .Names: 1)
  rpf/tests/testthat/test-sumscore.R (.Dim: 1, .Dimnames: 1)
  rpf/inst/doc/flexmirt-plots.R (.Dim: 2, .Dimnames: 1, .Names: 1)
'.Dim' should be changed to 'dim'.
'.Dimnames' should be changed to 'dimnames'.
'.Names' should be changed to 'names'.

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  • NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-07-16
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  • ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
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  • NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10
Advisories

none known

Documentation

In release 1.0.15
READMEYes · 139 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSNoCitation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION
Help pages
75includes a package overview page
Examples that run
100%36 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples
52%
Documented parameters
100%
Return-value docs
45%
Help pages citing references
25%

Downloads

234.2K
CRAN downloads in the past year
Rank #1,145 · ~642/day · ~19.5K/mo
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Repository

0Stars
2Forks
4Open issues
0Open PRs
0Releases
501Commits
5Commit identities
501 commits · Last activity 2021-09-28 · The default branch showed an older version (1.0.9) than CRAN on 2026-10-22
Responsiveness
How these are sampled
PRs merged (all time)
100%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues
58
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs
4

Forks over time

2021-05-07 · 22026-07-07 · 2
PracticesBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/jpritikin/rpf on 2026-10-22.

Continuous integration (1)
Travis CI (config file)
Governance and community (1)

The repository owner accepts GitHub Sponsors

Coverage (1)
Coverage reporting (Codecov)
Lint, format, editor (1)
EditorConfig
How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (2026-10-20)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies
14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing rpf adds 6 packages (5 with compiled code, 6.0 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: Rcpp 1.8 MB, RcppEigen 1.7 MB, mvtnorm 1.0 MB.

Depends (3)
R >= 2.14.0methodsparallel
LinkingTo (2)
Enhances (0)
none
Reverse dependencies
2direct
37indirect
Depends 1 · LinkingTo 1
Suggested by 1
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Suggests, most downloaded first

Datasets

People & History

People (7)
Maintainer since 0.2 (2012), Author
Contributor · added in 0.10
Contributor · added in 0.10
Contributor
Contributor · added in 0.10
Contributor
Listed in earlier versions (5)
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Alexander Blocker
no longer listed · 0.8 to 3.0.0
Michael D.
no longer listed · 0.45 to 0.62
Carl F.
no longer listed · 0.51 to 0.62
Falk
no longer listed · 1.0.2 to 1.0.15
Hunter
no longer listed · 1.0.2 to 1.0.15
Releases (55)

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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
  • R
    R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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    R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
  • R
    R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
  • R
    R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
  • unarchivedReturned to CRAN
    2018-05-07
  • R
    R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
  • orphanedOrphaned by its maintainer
    2018-04-03
    invalid 'Makevars' was not corrected nor GNU make declared, despite requests Further corrected on 2018-05-06 for warnings from gcc 8
  • removedRemoved from CRAN
    Versions 0.30 and 0.32 were removed for copyright violations and misrepresentation of authorship
  • R
    R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
  • R
    R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
  • R
    R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
  • R
    R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
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Package metadata

First published
2012-08-06
Total releases
55 / 14 yrs
License
GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R
≥ 2.14.0
Bundled data
32 KB / 4 files
Download size
440 KB
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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("rpf")

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for rpf version 1.0.15 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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