idealstan: Robust Measurement with 'Stan'

Offers item-response theory (IRT) ideal-point measurement modeling for diverse distributions, missing data, and over-time variation. Full and approximate Bayesian sampling with 'Stan' (<https://mc-stan.org/>).

Version: 1.0
Depends: methods, R (≥ 4.0.0)
Imports: dplyr, svDialogs, tidyr, stringr, bayesplot, posterior, gghighlight, ggrepel, ggplot2, tidybayes, lazyeval, rlang, ggthemes, forcats, ordbetareg, scales, shiny, tibble
Suggests: cmdstanr, quarto, knitr, rmarkdown, loo, lubridate, rstan, shinystan, pscl, tinytable, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published: 2026-05-12
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.idealstan
Author: Robert Kubinec [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Robert Kubinec <bobkubinec at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/saudiwin/idealstan/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
NeedsCompilation: no
SystemRequirements: GNU make
Additional_repositories: https://stan-dev.r-universe.dev
Citation: idealstan citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: idealstan results

Documentation:

Reference manual: idealstan.html , idealstan.pdf
Vignettes: Introduction to idealstan (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: idealstan_1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): idealstan_1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): idealstan_1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): idealstan_1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): idealstan_1.0.tgz
Old sources: idealstan archive

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