formr

1.1.0

Companion R Package for the 'formr' Survey Framework

0packages depend

510downloads / year

45.0%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Ruben ArslanFirst published 2026-06-171 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Serves as a companion toolkit for the 'formr' survey framework (https://rforms.org). The package acts as a bridge between a 'formr' server and a local R environment. Key features include an API client for fetching, type-casting, and automatically scoring data; a project management workflow for syncing study assets (surveys, CSS) for local editing; and functions for use within 'formr' runs to generate dynamic, personalized feedback plots and to simplify survey logic.

Install

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

install.packages("formr", 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("rubenarslan/formr")

Development version from rubenarslan/formr. 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-formr

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-formr

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-formr

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

Health

CRAN checks

1NOTE12OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 3.7 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.25

45.0%

Coverage · measured lines

94%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-17
7 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 277 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 60%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

510

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #21,543 · ~1/day · ~43/mo

Releases R versions

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Repository

GitHub ↗ rubenarslan/formr

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4Forks

7Open issues

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11Releases

303Commits

5Contributors

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303 commits · Last activity 2026-07-16 · 0% stars, 30d

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/rubenarslan/formr on 2026-08-02.

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CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Research and citation (1)

Zenodo

Lint, format, editor (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

24 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (21)

statsmethodstoolsutilsdplyr ggplot2 scales haven stringr tidyr knitr httr curl jsonlite lubridate rmarkdown otp keyring purrr readr rlang

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none

Suggests (7)

testthat vcr mockery withr rstudioapi plotly commonmark

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (2)

Maintainer (1)

Ruben Arslan

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Ruben Arslan

Author, Maintainer

Tim B Seidel

Author, Contributor

Contributors (1)

Tim B Seidel

Author, Contributor

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

1.1.0Latest
2026-06-17 · current release
R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24

Package metadata

First published: 2026-06-17
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: not tracked yet
Installed size: not tracked yet
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