Initial release of the catool (Compensation Analysis
Tool) R package.
✨ Features
- Calculates overload compensation based on institutional policies and
enrollment thresholds
- Applies proration logic for courses with low enrollment (default:
4–9 students)
- Identifies qualified credit hours exceeding the regular teaching
load (default: 12 hours)
- Returns detailed, instructor-level summaries with total
compensation
- Supports batch summaries across all instructors
- Offers flexible filtering by subject, instructor, department, or
division
- Produces tidy, export-ready tibbles for audits and administrative
reporting
- Includes a full walkthrough vignette
(
catool-walkthrough) explaining policy logic and usage
examples
📦 Infrastructure
- Fully documented with
roxygen2; all exported functions
include runnable examples
- Tested on Windows, Ubuntu, Fedora, and macOS platforms
- Unit tests included (via
testthat)
- GitHub Actions CI setup for multi-platform testing
- Licensed under AGPL-3