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dexter

1.8.1

Data Management and Analysis of Tests

1packages depend

8.4Kdownloads / year

63.4%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Jesse KoopsFirst published 2017-02-0839 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A system for the management, assessment, and psychometric analysis of data from educational and psychological tests.

Install

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

install.packages("dexter", 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("dexter-psychometrics/dexter")

Development version from dexter-psychometrics/dexter. 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-dexter

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

# 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-dexter

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 8.4 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Check history

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NOTE2026-04-22
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-18
11 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
12 OK · 2 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

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Repository

GitHub ↗ dexter-psychometrics/dexter

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7Contributors

License LGPL-3.0 · 274 commits · Last activity 2026-07-24 · 0% stars, 30d

Repository practices

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

Checks run against github.com/dexter-psychometrics/dexter on 2026-07-19.

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

17 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1

Imports (12)

RSQLite DBIMASStidyr (>= 1.2.0)rlang dplyr Rcpp RcppArmadillographicsgrDevicesmethodsutils

LinkingTo (4)

Rcpp RcppArmadillo dqrng BH

Suggests (7)

knitr rmarkdown latticeExtra testthat Cairo cliparallel

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

1direct

0indirect

dextergui

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Jesse Koops

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.4.2

Authors (4)

Jesse Koops

Author, Maintainer · added in 0.4.2

Timo Bechger

Author

Gunter Maris

Author

Ivailo Partchev

Author

Package Timeline

39 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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0.8.0
2018-06-11 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2018-06-11
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2018-06-10
C errors were not corrected despite reminder Misuse of 'inline' where 'static inline' was appropriate
0.7.0
2018-05-17 · diff ↗
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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2017-12-16 · diff ↗
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2017-07-18 · diff ↗
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.1.7
2017-02-08
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2017-02-08
Total releases: 39 / 9 yrs
License: LGPL-3 OSI
Download size: 1.0 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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