R Observatory: Metrics for writeAlizer version 1.7.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

writeAlizer

1.7.3

Generate Predicted Writing Quality Scores

0packages depend

2Kdownloads / year

89.3%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Sterett H. MercerFirst published 2025-09-306 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Imports variables from 'ReaderBench' (Dascalu et al., 2018)doi:10.1007/978-3-319-66610-5_48, 'Coh-Metrix' (McNamara et al., 2014)doi:10.1017/CBO9780511894664, and/or 'GAMET' (Crossley et al., 2019) doi:10.17239/jowr-2019.11.02.01 output files; downloads predictive scoring models described in Mercer & Cannon (2022)doi:10.31244/jero.2022.01.03 and Mercer et al.(2021)doi:10.1177/0829573520987753; and generates predicted writing quality and curriculum-based measurement (McMaster & Espin, 2007)doi:10.1177/00224669070410020301 scores.

Install

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

install.packages("writeAlizer", 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("shmercer/writeAlizer")

Development version from shmercer/writeAlizer. 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-writealizer

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-writeAlizer

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-writeAlizer

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 5.0 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 1.49

89.3%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

9

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-02
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 2 earlier snapshots

ERROR2026-04-25
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 1,411 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

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

Downloads

2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #22,582 · ~6/day · ~170/mo

Releases R versions

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8330 days

46390 days

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Repository

GitHub ↗ shmercer/writealizer

3Stars

1Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

10Releases

315Commits

2Contributors

rr-packagerstatswriting-assessmentwriting-toolscoh-metrixcurriculum-based-measurementreaderbench

315 commits · Last activity 2026-02-17

Stars over time

2022-06-14 · 22026-07-07 · 3

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/shmercer/writealizer on 2026-08-03.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (2)

cran-comments.mdCRAN-SUBMISSION

Research and citation (1)

codemeta.json

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

21 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 2.10

Imports (9)

caret cli digest dplyr glue magrittr rlangstatstidyselect

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (13)

caretEnsemble Cubist curl earth gbm glmnet kernlab knitr pls randomForest rmarkdown testthat withr

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Sterett H. Mercer

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Sterett H. Mercer

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

6 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.7.3Latest
2026-02-17 · current release · diff ↗
1.7.2
2025-11-25 · diff ↗
1.7.1
2025-10-23 · diff ↗
1.7.0
2025-10-22 · diff ↗
1.6.5
2025-09-30 · diff ↗
1.6.4
2025-09-30
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-09-30
Total releases: 6 / 1 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.10
Download size: 742 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Cite

Cite this package

Start here. This is the citation for the package itself.

citation("writeAlizer")

CRAN DOI

https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.writeAlizer

BibTeX, derived from DESCRIPTION

@Manual{writeAlizer,
  title  = {writeAlizer: Generate Predicted Writing Quality Scores},
  author = {Mercer, Sterett H.},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {R package version 1.7.3},
  doi    = {10.32614/CRAN.package.writeAlizer},
  url    = {https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=writeAlizer}
}

Derived from the package DESCRIPTION, not from a citation file the authors wrote. If they publish one later, prefer it.

This is the citation for the package. It is not a citation for the R Observatory.

Cite this page

Use this when the claim is about a measurement on this page.

BibTeX

@misc{robservatorywriteAlizer,
  author    = {Balamuta, James Joseph},
  title     = {{R} {Observatory}: Metrics for {writeAlizer} version 1.7.3},
  year      = {2026},
  publisher = {HJJB, LLC},
  url       = {https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/writeAlizer},
  note      = {Data set. Data release v2026-08-05}
}

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for writeAlizer version 1.7.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-05. https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/writeAlizer

RIS

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AU  - Balamuta, James Joseph
TI  - R Observatory: Metrics for writeAlizer version 1.7.3
PY  - 2026
PB  - HJJB, LLC
N1  - Data release v2026-08-05
UR  - https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/writeAlizer
ER  -

In prose

These package metrics were obtained from the R Observatory (Balamuta, 2026), data release v2026-08-05, https://r-observatory.thecoatlessprofessor.com/packages/writeAlizer.

Bound to data release v2026-08-05, which is what makes the numbers on this page reproducible. See how to cite.

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