Package: ShortForm
Type: Package
Title: Automatic Short Form Creation
Version: 0.5.8
Date: 2026-05-06
Authors@R: c(person("Anthony", "Raborn", email = "anthony.w.raborn@gmail.com", 
    role = c("aut", "cre"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-8083-4739")), 
    person("Walter", "Leite", email = "Walter.Leite@coe.ufl.edu", role = "aut"))
Description: Performs automatic creation of short forms of scales with
        an ant colony optimization algorithm and a Tabu search. As
        implemented in the package, the ant colony algorithm randomly
        selects items to build a model of a specified length, then
        updates the probability of item selection according to the fit
        of the best model within each set of searches. The algorithm
        continues until the same items are selected by multiple ants a
        given number of times in a row. On the other hand, the Tabu
        search changes one parameter at a time to be either free,
        constrained, or fixed while keeping track of the changes made
        and putting changes that result in worse fit in a "tabu" list
        so that the algorithm does not revisit them for some number of
        searches. See Leite, Huang, & Marcoulides (2008)
        <doi:10.1080/00273170802285743> for an applied example of the
        ant colony algorithm, and Marcoulides & Falk (2018)
        <doi:10.1080/10705511.2017.1409074> for an applied example of
        the Tabu search.
License: LGPL (>= 2.0, < 3) | Mozilla Public License
LazyData: TRUE
Suggests: knitr, MplusAutomation (>= 0.7), rmarkdown, testthat
Imports: lavaan (>= 0.5-22), stringr, methods, doSNOW, parallel,
        foreach, rlang
Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)
URL: https://github.com/AnthonyRaborn/ShortForm
BugReports: https://github.com/AnthonyRaborn/ShortForm/issues
Encoding: UTF-8
Config/roxygen2/version: 8.0.0
Config/pak/sysreqs: libicu-dev
Repository: https://anthonyraborn.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-05-06 05:08:52 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/anthonyraborn/shortform
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: ee9bcf078b0aa03d9a3c8951f67a9f5e98d7370a
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-07-05 08:37:36 UTC; root
Author: Anthony Raborn [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8083-4739>),
  Walter Leite [aut]
Maintainer: Anthony Raborn <anthony.w.raborn@gmail.com>