exams

2.4-3

Automatic Generation of Exams in R

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48.4Kdownloads / year

4.7%test coverage

9/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Achim ZeileisFirst published 2008-11-1030 releasesCRAN page ↗

Automatic generation of exams based on exercises in Markdown or LaTeX format, possibly including R code for dynamic generation of exercise elements. Exercise types include single-choice and multiple-choice questions, arithmetic problems, string questions, and combinations thereof (cloze). Output formats include standalone files (PDF, HTML, Docx, ODT, ...), Moodle XML, QTI 1.2, QTI 2.1, Blackboard, Canvas, OpenOlat, ILIAS, TestVision, Particify, ARSnova, Kahoot!, Grasple, and TCExam. In addition to fully customizable PDF exams, a standardized PDF format (NOPS) is provided that can be printed, scanned, and automatically evaluated.

Install

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

install.packages("exams", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-exams

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-exams

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

Health

CRAN checks

4NOTE9OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc
NOTE r-devel-windows-x86_64

Slowest check: 12.0 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.00

4.7%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 81%
Documented parameters: 87%
Return-value docs: 86%
References docs: 32%

Downloads

48.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #2,031 · ~133/day · ~4K/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

13 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4.0

Imports (8)

graphicsgrDevicesstatstoolsutilsbase64enc knitr rmarkdown

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (11)

clipr magick openxlsxparallelpng qpdf RCurl RJSONIO tinytex tth xml2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

10direct

0indirect

exams2forms exams2learnr exams2sakai pafdR exams.forge.data exams.mylearn exams2ilias rqti Ryacas exams.forge

Code & Tests

People & History

People (12)

Maintainer (1)

Achim Zeileis

Author, Maintainer

Authors (5)

Achim Zeileis

Author, Maintainer

Bettina Gruen

Author

Friedrich Leisch

Author · added in 1.9-2

Niels Smits

Author · added in 2.2-0

Nikolaus Umlauf

Author · added in 1.9-2

Contributors (7)

Sebastian Bachler

Contributor · added in 2.4-2

Mirko Birbaumer

Contributor · added in 2.2-1

Dominik Ernst

Contributor · added in 2.0-1

Patrik Keller

Contributor · added in 2.3-1

Kenji Sato

Contributor · added in 2.3-5

Reto Stauffer

Contributor · added in 2.3-1

Florian Wickelmaier

Contributor · added in 2.4-0

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Package metadata

First published: 2008-11-10
Total releases: 30 / 18 yrs
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4.0
Download size: 1.8 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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