surveyframe: Survey Instrument Workflows

Supports survey research workflows built around a typed instrument object (the sframe). Features include visual instrument design via a browser-based builder or 'Shiny' studio, export to a self-contained static HTML survey, an embeddable 'Shiny' module, SHA-256 integrity-checked serialisation to the '.sframe' format, multi-page survey rendering, branching logic, response quality checking, scale scoring, psychometric diagnostics, analysis-plan execution, model syntax planning, an interactive response dashboard, codebook generation, and reproducible HTML reporting.

Version: 0.3.1
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: jsonlite (≥ 1.8.0), rlang (≥ 1.1.0), openssl (≥ 2.1.0)
Suggests: googlesheets4 (≥ 1.1.0), shiny (≥ 1.7.0), psych (≥ 2.3.0), MASS, nnet, digest (≥ 0.6.0), testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown
Published: 2026-06-02
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.surveyframe
Author: Mohammed Ali Sharafuddin ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Mohammed Ali Sharafuddin <mohammedali.page at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/MohammedAliSharafuddin/surveyframe/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/MohammedAliSharafuddin/surveyframe
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-GB
Citation: surveyframe citation info
Materials: README, NEWS
In views: Psychometrics
CRAN checks: surveyframe results

Documentation:

Reference manual: surveyframe.html , surveyframe.pdf
Vignettes: Analysing survey responses: running the plan (source, R code)
Building a survey instrument: questions, plan, and model (source, R code)
EFA, CFA, CB-SEM, and PLS-SEM syntax generation (source, R code)
Scale reliability and validity (source, R code)
The visual workflow: SurveyBuilder, SurveyStudio, and the dashboard (source, R code)
Survey design and live results: a tourism services example (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: surveyframe_0.3.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: surveyframe_0.3.0.zip, r-release: surveyframe_0.3.0.zip, r-oldrel: surveyframe_0.3.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): surveyframe_0.3.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): surveyframe_0.3.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): surveyframe_0.3.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): surveyframe_0.3.1.tgz
Old sources: surveyframe archive

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