R Observatory: Metrics for simCAT version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

simCAT

1.0.1

Implements Computerized Adaptive Testing Simulations

0packages depend

2.2Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Alexandre JalotoFirst published 2024-03-082 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Computerized Adaptive Testing simulations with dichotomous and polytomous items. Selects items with Maximum Fisher Information method or randomly, with or without constraints (content balancing and item exposure control). Evaluates the simulation results in terms of precision, item exposure, and test length. Inspired on Magis & Barrada (2017) doi:10.18637/jss.v076.c01.

Install

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

install.packages("simCAT", 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("alexandrejaloto/simCAT")

Development version from alexandrejaloto/simCAT. 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-simcat

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

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-simCAT

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-simCAT

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.7 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

5

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-08
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-06-07
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 52 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 17%

Downloads

2.2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #22,086 · ~6/day · ~180/mo

Releases R versions

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13330 days

49090 days

2.2K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ alexandrejaloto/simcat

1Stars

0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

60Commits

1Contributors

60 commits · Last activity 2024-09-26

Stars over time

2024-04-12 · 12026-07-07 · 1

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/alexandrejaloto/simcat on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

5 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (5)

dplyr mirt mirtCAT shiny shinycssloaders

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Alexandre Jaloto

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.0.1

Authors (1)

Alexandre Jaloto

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.0.1

Other (1)

Ricardo Primi

Thesis advisor · added in 1.0.1

Package Timeline

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
1.0.1Latest
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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2024-03-08
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21

Package metadata

First published: 2024-03-08
Total releases: 2 / 2 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Download size: 18 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Format

Jaloto, A., & Primi, R. (2024). simCAT: Implements Computerized Adaptive Testing Simulations (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.simCAT

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for simCAT version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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