SHELF

1.13.0

Tools to Support the Sheffield Elicitation Framework

5packages depend

9.5Kdownloads / year

18.5%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jeremy OakleyFirst published 2015-07-0718 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Implements various methods for eliciting a probability distribution for a single parameter from an expert or a group of experts. The expert provides a small number of probability judgements, corresponding to points on his or her cumulative distribution function. A range of parametric distributions can then be fitted and displayed, with feedback provided in the form of fitted probabilities and percentiles. For multiple experts, a weighted linear pool can be calculated. Also includes functions for eliciting beliefs about population distributions; eliciting multivariate distributions using a Gaussian copula; eliciting a Dirichlet distribution; eliciting distributions for variance parameters in a random effects meta-analysis model; survival extrapolation. R Shiny apps for most of the methods are included.

Install

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

install.packages("SHELF", 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("OakleyJ/SHELF")

Development version from OakleyJ/SHELF. 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-shelf

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-SHELF

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-SHELF

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 5.3 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.14

18.5%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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ERROR2026-06-08
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14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 66%
References docs: 6%

Downloads

9.5K

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Rank #4,436 · ~26/day · ~792/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ oakleyj/shelf

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9Forks

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0Open PRs

0Releases

177Commits

11Contributors

177 commits · Last activity 2026-04-02 · +4.8% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (19)

flexsurv ggExtra ggplot2 ggrepel ggridgesgraphicsgrDevicesgridHmisc rmarkdown scales shiny shinyMatrix snstatssurvivalsurvminer tidyrutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

GGally knitr testthat vdiffr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

5direct

0indirect

DTEAssurance convdistr disbayes expertsurv survextrap

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 13,106 (85%)Rd 2,192 (14%)Vignettes 183 (1%)

Code characteristics

Cyclomatic complexity: 4.0 median / 80 max
Test cases: 41 / 0.14 per code line

Test coverage

Line coverage

19%

Expression

26.4%

Tests / Examples

18.5% / – ex

Functions

91 42 exported

Complexity

8.9 avg / 80 max

Call network

91 nodes / 123 edges

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Lowest coverage

91 functions

Function	Cyclo	Coverage
cdffeedback exp	5	0%
compareGroupRIO exp	12	0%
condDirichlet exp	1	0%
elicit exp	22	0%
elicitBivariate exp	5	0%
elicitConcProb exp	1	0%

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Jeremy Oakley

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Jeremy Oakley

Author, Maintainer

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-07-07
Total releases: 18 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Download size: 311 KB
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