surveyframe: Survey Instrument Workflows

Provides a design-first survey research workflow. An instrument, an analysis plan declared before data collection, and a measurement or structural model are held together in one typed, integrity-checked object (the 'sframe'), so a study's confirmatory tests are fixed before responses arrive rather than chosen afterward. Includes visual instrument design via a browser-based builder or 'Shiny' studio, export to a self-contained static HTML survey, an embeddable 'Shiny' module, SHA-256 integrity-checked serialisation to the '.sframe' format, multi-page survey rendering with branching logic, response quality checking, scale scoring, psychometric diagnostics, analysis-plan execution, model syntax generation for EFA, CFA, CB-SEM, and PLS-SEM, an interactive response dashboard, codebook generation, and reproducible HTML reporting. Also supports multi-criteria decision analysis (AHP, ANP, DEMATEL, TOPSIS, VIKOR, MOORA, SMART, WASPAS, PROMETHEE II, ELECTRE I), small-sample survey helpers, and text and open-ended response analysis (term and n-gram frequency, keyword in context, co-occurrence and co-occurrence networks, sentiment, document-feature matrices, and topic modelling via LDA or structural topic models).

Version:	0.4.1
Depends:	R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports:	jsonlite (≥ 1.8.0), rlang (≥ 1.1.0), openssl (≥ 2.1.0)
Suggests:	ggplot2 (≥ 3.4.0), googlesheets4 (≥ 1.1.0), shiny (≥ 1.7.0), psych (≥ 2.3.0), MASS, nnet, logistf (≥ 1.24.0), digest (≥ 0.6.0), lavaan (≥ 0.6-0), testthat (≥ 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown, naniar (≥ 1.0.0), pagedown (≥ 0.20), RMCDA (≥ 0.3.1), rstudioapi (≥ 0.13), jmv (≥ 2.4.0), tidytext (≥ 0.4.0), quanteda (≥ 3.0.0), stm (≥ 1.3.0), topicmodels, igraph (≥ 1.5.0), V8 (≥ 4.0.0), haven (≥ 2.5.0)
Published:	2026-09-03
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.surveyframe
Author:	Mohammed Ali Sharafuddin [aut, cre]
Maintainer:	Mohammed Ali Sharafuddin <mohammedali.page at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/MohammedAliSharafuddin/surveyframe/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://mohammedalisharafuddin.github.io/surveyframe/, https://github.com/MohammedAliSharafuddin/surveyframe
NeedsCompilation:	no
Language:	en-GB
Citation:	surveyframe citation info
Materials:	README, NEWS
In views:	Psychometrics
CRAN checks:	surveyframe results

Documentation:

Reference manual:

surveyframe.html , surveyframe.pdf

Vignettes:

Analysing survey responses: running the plan (source, R code) Building a survey instrument: questions, plan, and model (source, R code) Deploying a survey and collecting responses on free hosting (source, R code) EFA, CFA, CB-SEM, and PLS-SEM syntax generation (source, R code) Learn by example: 22 small surveys (source, R code) Multi-criteria decision analysis (source, R code) Scale reliability and validity (source, R code) Small-sample inference (source, R code) The visual workflow: SurveyBuilder, SurveyStudio, and the dashboard (source, R code) Survey design and live results: a tourism services example (source, R code) Text and open-ended response analysis (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	surveyframe_0.4.1.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: surveyframe_0.4.1.zip, r-release: surveyframe_0.4.1.zip, r-oldrel: surveyframe_0.4.1.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): surveyframe_0.4.1.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): surveyframe_0.4.1.tgz, r-release (x86_64): surveyframe_0.4.1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): surveyframe_0.4.1.tgz
Old sources:	surveyframe archive

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