I'm having trouble writing a cloze question with the exams package in R. I tried to stick close to the boxhist.Rmd example, but something must be wrong. the weird thing is that knitting the Rmd in rstudio displays all components ok - it's just that the html output is blank for the questions? any ideas much appreciated! here is my Rmd file, that I give to exams:::exams2html:
```{r data generation, echo = FALSE, results = "hide"}
m = sample(c(-1,0,5),1)
s = sample(c(1,10,20))
x = rnorm(mean = m, sd = s, n = 100)
write.csv(x, file="sumstats.csv",quote = FALSE,row.names = FALSE)
questions <- rep(list(""), 5)
solutions <- rep(list(""), 5)
explanations <- rep(list(""), 5)
type <- rep(list("num"),5)
questions[[1]] <- "What is the Interquartile range of $x$?"
questions[[2]] <- "What is the Variance of $x$?"
questions[[3]] <- "What is the standard deviation of $x$?"
questions[[4]] <- c("The standard deviation is *always* smaller than the variance.","The standard deviation is *NOT always* smaller than the variance.")
questions[[5]] <- "What is the median of $x$?"
solutions[[1]] <- round(IQR(x),3)
solutions[[2]] <- round(var(x),3)
solutions[[3]] <- round(sd(x) ,3)
solutions[[4]] <- mchoice2string(c(FALSE,TRUE))
solutions[[5]] <- round(median(x),3)
type[[4]] <- "schoice"
explanations[[1]] <- "Function `IQR`"
explanations[[2]] <- "Use `var(x)`"
explanations[[3]] <- "`sd(x)`"
explanations[[4]] <- "$\\sqrt{x}$ is not always smaller than $x$. Try $x=0.5$!"
explanations[[5]] <- "`median(x)`"
```
```{r questionlist, echo = FALSE, results = "asis"}
answerlist(unlist(questions), markup = "markdown")
```
Solution
========
```{r solutionlist, echo = FALSE, results = "asis"}
answerlist(paste(unlist(explanations), ".", sep = ""), markup = "markdown")
```
Meta-information
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extype: cloze
exsolution: `r paste(solutions, collapse = "|")`
exclozetype: `r paste(type, collapse = "|")`
exname: sumstats
extol: 0.05
