Package: DyadRatios
Type: Package
Title: Dyad Ratios Algorithm for Latent Variable Estimation
Version: 2.0
Date: 2026-05-07
Authors@R: c(
    person("James", "Stimson", role = c("aut"), comment = "Original C++ implementation"),
    person("Dave", "Armstrong", role = c("cre", "aut"), email = "davearmstrong.ps@gmail.com")
    )
Description: Implements the Dyad Ratios algorithm for estimating latent
    variables from time-series survey data. The algorithm estimates a
    latent mood dimension (or two dimensions) from a set of issue opinion
    series. Supports annual, quarterly, monthly, and daily aggregation
    intervals, optional exponential smoothing, and up to two latent
    dimensions. Input data can be provided as a data frame or read from
    delimited text files. Based on Stimson's 'MCalc' C++ program. 
    See Stimson (2018) <doi:10.1177/0759106318761614> for more details. 
License: GPL-3
Encoding: UTF-8
Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)
Imports: Rcpp (>= 1.0.0)
LinkingTo: Rcpp
VignetteBuilder: knitr
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
Suggests: testthat (>= 3.0.0), ggplot2, knitr, rmarkdown, dplyr,
        lubridate, rio, tidyr
NeedsCompilation: yes
Packaged: 2026-05-08 17:16:00 UTC; david
Author: James Stimson [aut] (Original C++ implementation),
  Dave Armstrong [cre, aut]
Maintainer: Dave Armstrong <davearmstrong.ps@gmail.com>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-05-09 01:23:02 UTC
