R Observatory: Metrics for csemTools version 0.1.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

csemTools

0.1.4

Conditional Standard Error of Measurement Tools for Test Scores

0packages depend

79downloads / year

3.3%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Cesar Merino-SotoFirst published 2026-07-291 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Compute and compare conditional standard errors of measurement (CSEM) across score distributions using methods from classical test theory. Includes approaches for smoothing, bootstrapped CSEM, standardized CSEM, CSEM for scale scores, and assessment of properties of split-half scores. Also supports comparison with global standard errors derived from reliability coefficients and graphical visualization of CSEM curves and relative precision across observed score ranges. Some of these implemented methods are based on work by Lord (1955) doi:10.1002/j.2333-8504.1955.tb00054.x, Feldt and Qualls (1996) doi:10.1111/j.1745-3984.1996.tb00486.x, McNeish and Dumas (2025) doi:10.3758/s13428-025-02611-8.

Install

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

install.packages("csemTools", 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("cmerinos/csemTools")

Development version from cmerinos/csemTools. 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-csemtools

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-csemTools

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-csemTools

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 1.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.01

3.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

4

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
10 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-30
5 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 228 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 24%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 58%

Downloads

79

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #24,631 · ~0/day · ~7/mo

Releases R versions

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7930 days

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791 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ cmerinos/csemtools

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0Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

209Commits

1Contributors

reliabilityconditional-standard-error-measurementtest-precision

209 commits · Last activity 2026-07-21

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/cmerinos/csemtools on 2026-08-03.

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

11 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (4)

bootggplot2 pbapply rlang

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (8)

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Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Cesar Merino-Soto

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Cesar Merino-Soto

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

0.1.4Latest
2026-07-29 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-07-29
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("csemTools")

Format

Merino-Soto, C. (2026). csemTools: Conditional Standard Error of Measurement Tools for Test Scores (Version 0.1.4) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.csemTools

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for csemTools version 0.1.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-08. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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