Package: TheOrdinals
Type: Package
Title: Aggregation and Consensus Methods for Preference-Approvals
Version: 0.1.0
Authors@R: c(
    person("Maurizio", "Romano", role = c("aut", "cre"),
           email = "romano.maurizio@unica.it"),
    person("Alessandro", "Albano", role = "aut",
           email = "alessandro.albano@unipa.it"))
Description: Tools for aggregating ordinal preference data into a group
        consensus. The package implements DIVA (Divide and Conquer for
        Preference-Approvals), a distance-based aggregation method for
        preference-approvals, that is, preference data in which voters
        express both a (weak) ranking and an approval of the
        alternatives. The consensus is the preference-approval
        minimising the average distance to the set of voters, measured
        through the family of distances of Erdamar, Garcia-Lapresta,
        Perez-Roman and Sanver (2014)
        <doi:10.1016/j.mathsocsci.2013.10.005>. Methods and
        applications are described in Albano and Romano (2026)
        <doi:10.1007/s11634-025-00663-4>. The package is designed to be
        extended with further methods for ordinal preference data.
License: GPL-3
Encoding: UTF-8
Language: en-GB
Depends: R (>= 3.5.0)
Imports: ConsRank
Suggests: testthat (>= 3.0.0), knitr, rmarkdown
VignetteBuilder: knitr
LazyData: true
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
Config/testthat/edition: 3
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-07-11 10:51:35 UTC; root
Author: Maurizio Romano [aut, cre], Alessandro Albano [aut]
Maintainer: Maurizio Romano <romano.maurizio@unica.it>
Repository: https://cran.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2026-07-11 09:00:07 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/cran/TheOrdinals
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: ab46a21a6b37c0b4c19592e45659f8b58a63650b