ruleR-package: ruleR: An R package for rule based item generation

In ruleR: Generating numeric sequence items for intelligence tests

Description

The package generates numeric sequences items for intelligence tests. Items can be generated using either the rules specified by the user or random combination of implemented rules.

Parameters of the items such as:
- starting value(s),
- maximum and minimum allowed elements,
- rules allowed to create items,
- number of nesting allowed (the length of chain of rules),
- length of numeric sequences
can be specified by user.

ruleR

Details

Package:	ruleR
Type:	Package
Version:	1.0
Date:	2012-07-31
License:	GPL-2
Depends:	methods

Author(s)

Maria Rafalak, Philipp Doebler
Maintainer: Maria Rafalak <[e-mail]>

See Also

createTest

Examples

##[1] CREATING SIMPLE SINGLE OR DOUBLE RULES

# single rules (operating on the previous element of the number sequence)
ruleS1<-createSR(a1=2,cv1=14,n=0) # or: ruleS1<-new("AddConstSingleRule",constantVal=14)
print(ruleS1)
ruleS2<-createSR(a1=3,cv=0,n=0) #or: ruleS2<-new("DigSumSingleRule")
print(ruleS2)
s<-createSR(a1=1,cv=0,n=0) #or: s<-new("IdenSingleRule")
print(s)

# double rules (operating on the two previous elements of the number sequence)
ruleD1<-createDR(a=2, fr=s,sr=s,ns=s) #or: ruleD1<-new("MultDoubleRule")
print(ruleD1)
ruleD2<-createDR(a=1,fr=s,sr=s,ns=s) #or: ruleD2<-new("AddDoubleRule")
print(ruleD2)

##[2] NESTING SEVERAL RULES

combine1<-createSR(a1=2,cv1=14,n=2,3,2,2,0)
print(combine1)

combine2<-createDR(a=1,fr=combine1,sr=s,ns=ruleS1)
print(combine2)

##[3] CALCULATING WITH THE RULES

calculate(ruleS1,2) # 2+14=16
calculate(ruleS1,2,7)#2+14=16 // second argument is ignored because ruleS1 is a SingleRule

calculate(ruleS2,67)#6+7=13
calculate(ruleS2,67,45)#6+7=13 // second argument is ignored because ruleS2 is a SingleRule

calculate(ruleD1,4,17)#4*17=68
calculate(ruleD1,4) #4 //just returns the first argument

calculate(ruleD2,5,17)#5+17=22
calculate(ruleD1,5) #5 //just returns the first argument

calculate(combine1,12)# (1+2)*2+14=20

calculate(combine2,15,1) #41 
# operations on first element: (1+5)*2+14=26
# operations on second element: 1
# DoubleRule calculated on the results: 26+1=27
# next SingleRule calculated on the reult: 27+14=41


##[4] CREATING A TEST CONSISTING OF 10 ITEMS
m<-createTest(10)#all parameters default

#printing rules used to create an item
for(i in 1:length(m[[2]])){
    cat(paste("\n\n--------------","rule for item number",i,"-------------\n"))
    print(m[[2]][[i]])
                          }
## SEE \code{createTest} function for more detail

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