easyRasch2: Psychometric Analysis with Rasch Measurement Theory

Streamlines reproducible Rasch measurement theory analyses for ordinal item-response data, combining estimation routines from 'eRm', 'psychotools', 'mirt', 'iarm', and 'lavaan' with consistent diagnostic, plotting, and reporting layers. Covers the four basic psychometric criteria summarised by Christensen et al. (2021) <doi:10.1111/sms.13908> – unidimensionality, local independence, ordered response category thresholds, and invariance across subgroups – together with item fit, targeting, reliability, category functioning, and descriptive item-response plots. A distinguishing feature is the use of simulation-based critical values to replace rule-of-thumb cutoffs for conditional infit mean-square, Yen's Q3 local-dependence statistic, the largest residual-PCA eigenvalue, and ordinal CFA fit indices. Outputs are knitr::kable() tables and 'ggplot2' figures suitable for direct inclusion in 'Quarto' and 'R Markdown' reports.

Version: 0.8.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: eRm, knitr, mirt, psychotools (≥ 0.7-3), stats, utils, rlang
Suggests: difR, dplyr, geomtextpath, ggdist, ggtext, iarm, mirai, ggplot2 (≥ 3.4.0), partykit, psychotree, stablelearner, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), rmarkdown, patchwork, scales, mice, ggrepel, lavaan
Published: 2026-06-08
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.easyRasch2 (may not be active yet)
Author: Magnus Johansson ORCID iD [aut, cre], Nicklas Korsell [ctb] (PCM simulation code), Mirka Henninger ORCID iD [ctb] (MH / partial-gamma effect-size and ETS-classification algorithms in dif_tree.R, adapted under MIT licence from the raschtreeMH and effecttree packages), Jan Radek ORCID iD [ctb] (partial-gamma effect-size and ETS-classification algorithms in dif_tree.R, adapted under MIT licence from the effecttree package)
Maintainer: Magnus Johansson <pgmj at pm.me>
BugReports: https://github.com/pgmj/easyRasch2/issues
License: GPL (≥ 3)
URL: https://github.com/pgmj/easyRasch2, https://pgmj.github.io/easyRasch2/
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: easyRasch2 results

Documentation:

Reference manual: easyRasch2.html , easyRasch2.pdf
Vignettes: A Rasch analysis workflow with easyRasch2 (source)

Downloads:

Package source: easyRasch2_0.8.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): easyRasch2_0.8.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): not available

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