BSD Ports

deskutils/R-cran-exams 2.4.1 DragonFly

Automatic generation of exams in R

System
DragonFly
Repository
DPorts
Maintainer
[email protected] (as in FreeBSD)
License
GPLv2, GPLv3
Categories
deskutils, education
Package size
2026.9 KiB, 2823.1 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

The newest version among them is 2.4.5, as upstream numbers it.

SystemPortVersionVulnerabilitiesStatusMaintainerLast update
DragonFlydeskutils/R-cran-exams2.4.1 behind since 2026-08-02none known-[email protected]-
FreeBSDdeskutils/R-cran-exams2.4.5 newestnone known-[email protected]2026-10-20
GhostBSDdeskutils/R-cran-exams2.4.4 behind since 2026-10-12no data-[email protected]-

Install

Binary package:

pkg install R-cran-exams

From DPorts:

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

Dependency graph

Ports that need it on the left, what it needs to run on the right; at most 8 of each. "Dependencies" below lists them all.

Dependencies

Run dependencies 13

No port depends on this one.