grade-package {grade}

Grade

Description

Binary Grading functions for R.

Details

Package:	grade
Version:	0.2
Date:	2009-02-20
Title:	Grade
Author:	Leif Johnson <[e-mail]>
Maintainer:	Leif Johnson <[e-mail]>
URL:	http://www.stat.umn.edu/~leif/software/grade/
Depends:	R (>= 2.4.1)
Description:	Binary Grading functions for R.
License:	GPL-2
Packaged:	Fri Feb 20 10:28:59 2009; leif

Index:

\link{grade.discreteprobability}
                        Grade Discrete Probability Sets
\link{grade.interval}          Grade Intervals
\link{grade.isscalar}          Check if an object is a scalar
\link{grade.negative}          Check the Sign of a Number
\link{grade.number}            Grade Single Numbers
\link{grade.orderedset}        Grade Ordered Sets
\link{grade.parse}             Parse input
\link{grade.parsechunk}
\link{grade.parseset}
\link{grade.set}               Grade Sets
\link{grade.truefalse}         True/False answers

Note

There are some common arguments across all of the grade functions. These are:

• correctansInput to be the correct answer. May be a string or a vector. Checks are likely to be more stringent on this component and result in more errors. E.g. grade.interval requires that correctans have length 2.

• studentansInput to check for correctness. May be a string or a vector. Most of the grade functions check it against correctans

• useevalTRUE or FALSE. If TRUE eval is used to evaluate text elements. If FALSE as.numeric is used to evaluate text elements. The advantage of using eval is more forgiveness for input, e.g. eval of "pi" returns 3.1415, or eval of "1/2" returns 0.5, but as.numeric returns NA in each case. The disadvantage is that eval could be abused to run arbitrary code leading to a security issue. However, the grade package does not submit any text to either eval or as.numeric that contains any of the characters '[', ']', '(', ')', '<', '>', '=' or ','. It is unlikely that code containing function calls could be inserted. So useeval defaults to TRUE. If there are problems, or you are worried, you can always set useeval=FALSE.

• usenaTRUE or FALSE. If TRUE, NA is considered to be a valid number. If FALSE, NA is considered to be invalid. Default is usena=FALSE.

• useinfTRUE or FALSE. If TRUE, Inf and -Inf are considered to be valid numbers. If FALSE, Inf and -Inf are considered to be invalid. Default is useinf=FALSE.

• quietTRUE or FALSE. If FALSE, errors or bad input result in more warning messages. Default is quiet=TRUE.

Author(s)

Leif Johnson <[e-mail]>

Maintainer: Leif Johnson <[e-mail]>

References

http://www.stat.umn.edu/~leif/software/grade