psychTestR

Spec sheet

Purpose

psychTestR is an R package for developing and administering behavioural experiments.Read 4 Oct 2026 · pmcharrison.github.io

Support

The project welcomes usage questions and bug reports through its GitHub issue tracker and accepts contributions through pull requests.Read 4 Oct 2026 · pmcharrison.github.io

Admin controls

The admin panel supports downloading results, switching between pilot and live modes, controlling test availability, and viewing participation statistics.Read 4 Oct 2026 · pmcharrison.github.io

Built on Shiny

It builds on Shiny to create linear sequences of test pages that elicit and record participant responses.Read 4 Oct 2026 · pmcharrison.github.io

Custom interfaces

Users can build custom interfaces with HTML-generating htmltools functions and custom page types.Read 4 Oct 2026 · pmcharrison.github.io

Integration

The documentation describes embedding jsPsych within psychTestR.Read 4 Oct 2026 · pmcharrison.github.io

Languages

Internationalised tests can use a dictionary with translations for multiple languages.Read 4 Oct 2026 · pmcharrison.github.io

Local and online use

Tests can run locally for development or in-person data collection, or on remote servers for online data collection.Read 4 Oct 2026 · pmcharrison.github.io

Media

Experiments can display images, audio, and video, using externally hosted media or media hosted within the app.Read 4 Oct 2026 · pmcharrison.github.io

Notable limitation

The documentation says error logging functionality has yet to be completed and recommends base R and Shiny Server logging instead.Read 4 Oct 2026 · pmcharrison.github.io

Online deployment

The hosting guide says online experiments can be deployed with open-source Shiny Server on a Linux server.Read 4 Oct 2026 · pmcharrison.github.io

Page types

Built-in page types include text input, audio and video multiple-choice, dropdown multiple-choice, slider, and final pages.Read 4 Oct 2026 · pmcharrison.github.io

Randomisation

Reactive pages can generate pages at run time, including pages with randomised stimuli.Read 4 Oct 2026 · pmcharrison.github.io

Results

Responses can be saved to disk as RDS and downloaded through the admin panel as RDS or CSV files.Read 4 Oct 2026 · pmcharrison.github.io

Where Specifiction places it

• Assessment Software#37 of 376.7