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: 2026-07-05 09:28:12 UTC; 39346
Author: Maurizio Romano [aut, cre],
  Alessandro Albano [aut]
Maintainer: Maurizio Romano <romano.maurizio@unica.it>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-07-11 09:00:07 UTC
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