deskutils/R-cran-exams 2.4.5 FreeBSD

Automatic generation of exams in R

System: FreeBSD
Repository: FreeBSD ports
Maintainer: [email protected]
Last update: 2026-10-20
Commit: f08d11bc2d
License: GPLv2, GPLv3
Categories: deskutils, education
Package size: 2143.0 KiB, 3012.5 KiB installed

Description

Automatic generation of exams based on exercises in Markdown or LaTeX format, possibly including R code for dynamic generation of exercise elements.

Exercise types include single-choice and multiple-choice questions, arithmetic problems, string questions, and combinations thereof (cloze).

Output formats include standalone files (PDF, HTML, Docx, ODT, ...), Moodle XML, QTI 1.2, QTI 2.1, Blackboard, Canvas, OpenOlat, ILIAS, TestVision, Particify, ARSnova, Kahoot!, Grasple, and TCExam. In addition to fully customizable PDF exams, a standardized PDF format (NOPS) is provided that can be printed, scanned, and automatically evaluated.

In the other systems

System

Port

Version

FreeBSD

deskutils/R-cran-exams

2.4.5

DragonFly

deskutils/R-cran-exams

2.4.1

GhostBSD

deskutils/R-cran-exams

2.4.4

Install

Binary package:

pkg install R-cran-exams

From the ports tree:

cd /usr/ports/deskutils/R-cran-exams/ && make install clean

To depend on this port in another port's Makefile:

RUN_DEPENDS=	R-cran-exams>0:deskutils/R-cran-exams

Packages

The version each package repository carries. “-” means the repository builds no package of it, “n/a” that there is no such repository.

Repository	aarch64	amd64	armv6	armv7	i386
FreeBSD:14:latest	2.4.4	2.4.5	-	-	-
FreeBSD:14:quarterly	2.4.4	2.4.4	n/a	-	-
FreeBSD:15:latest	2.4.5	2.4.5	n/a	-	-
FreeBSD:15:quarterly	2.4.4	2.4.4	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:16:latest	2.4.4	2.4.5	n/a	n/a	n/a
FreeBSD:16:quarterly	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

Dependencies

As this port's Makefile names them.

Runtime 14

hs-pandoc>0 : textproc/hs-pandoc
R-cran-base64enc>0 : converters/R-cran-base64enc
R-cran-knitr>0 : print/R-cran-knitr
R-cran-magick>0 : graphics/R-cran-magick
R-cran-openxlsx>0 : textproc/R-cran-openxlsx
R-cran-png>0 : graphics/R-cran-png
R-cran-qpdf>0 : graphics/R-cran-qpdf
R-cran-RCurl>0 : ftp/R-cran-RCurl
R-cran-RJSONIO>0 : converters/R-cran-RJSONIO
R-cran-rmarkdown>0 : textproc/R-cran-rmarkdown
R-cran-tinytex>0 : print/R-cran-tinytex
R-cran-tth>0 : textproc/R-cran-tth
R-cran-xml2>0 : textproc/R-cran-xml2
zip>0 : archivers/zip

Test 4

pdftex : print/tex-formats
R-cran-clipr>0 : devel/R-cran-clipr
R-cran-qpdf>0 : graphics/R-cran-qpdf
tex-dvipsk>0 : print/tex-dvipsk

The full lists below include those, and their dependencies in turn.

Build dependencies 86

Run dependencies 207

The first 100 are listed.

Required by 1

deskutils/R-cran-exams2forms

Configuration

No options to configure.

USES: cran:auto-plist
Service scripts: none

Files

distinfo 1

File

Size

SHA256

exams_2.4-5.tar.gz

1.896083e+06

033105a44865ec061e524c14d7cfd927654368a6ece5d7d33de2bb00c44789fe

Commit history 4

Date Commit Credits Log message

2026-10-20

f08d11bc2d

Zsolt Udvari

*/R-cran-*: Use cran.mk's default WWW

Remove WWW from my ports because cran.mk provides a default WWW. See the entry of 20260914 in /usr/ports/CHANGES.

2026-10-12

eb730fc1d2

Zsolt Udvari

deskutils/R-cran-exams: Update to 2.4-5

Changelog: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/exams/news/news.html

2026-09-18

ce2322be51

Devin Teske

Update R-cran-* WWW to modern URL

Old R-cran-* ports have https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/${PORTNAME} New R-cran-* ports have https://cran.r-project.org/package=${PORTNAME} Replace all the old WWW URLs with new WWW URLs Reviewed by: fuz Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D59714

2026-08-02

0c45e73433

Zsolt Udvari

deskutils/R-cran-exams: Update to 2.4-4

Changelog: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/exams/news/news.html