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R package relialearnr by paulgovan — release notes from GitHub.

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The teaching arm of an R reliability suite keeps pace with whatever its analysis siblings ship.

reliability-engineeringr-packageeducationinteractive-tutorialslearnrstatistics-teaching
◆Current state
ReliaLearnR is a set of interactive learnr tutorials for reliability engineering, covering life data analysis, reliability testing, RAM concepts, reliability block diagrams, and repairable systems, each with code exercises and quiz questions. It was WeibullR.learnr until the start of 2026, when the rename and a set of shorter function names arrived together. A companion book now supplements the interactive material.
◆Where it's heading
The tutorials track the maintainer's analysis packages rather than leading them: repairable systems and mean cumulative function teaching material appeared once the modelling functions for them existed elsewhere in the suite, and the reliability testing tutorial followed the same pattern earlier. Recent work has been about depth rather than coverage — interactive parameter sliders, goodness-of-fit sections, model comparison exercises, more quiz questions per topic. The rename to ReliaLearnR was part of the same suite-wide repositioning away from Weibull-specific branding that the plotting package made.
◆Prediction
On the established pattern, the next tutorials will follow whatever the analysis packages shipped most recently; the entries do not indicate whether the newer tool-server interfaces will get teaching material of their own.

◆Recent moves

  1. 2mo ago

    Block diagram and repairable systems tutorials added

    Two substantial new tutorials — reliability block diagrams with series, parallel, mixed and k-out-of-n configurations plus an introduction to fault tree analysis, and repairable systems covering NHPP modelling and mean cumulative function estimation. The second follows the analysis siblings closely, which is how this package generally works. Existing tutorials get deepened with an interactive failure rate slider, an Anderson-Darling section, and more exercises, and a companion book joins the interactive material.

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  2. 7mo ago

    ReliaLearnR 0.3.1

    A patch tag shipped a day after 0.3 with byte-identical release notes, describing the same rename and the same function shortenings. Nothing in the feed indicates what this release changed on its own.

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  3. 7mo ago

    Renamed to ReliaLearnR, with shorter tutorial launchers

    The breaking release that carries the actual change: the package becomes ReliaLearnR and its tutorial launchers shrink to lda(), rt(), and ram(). Part of the suite-wide move away from Weibull-specific naming, and a practical improvement for a teaching package where the function name is the first thing a student types.

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  4. 1y ago

    WeibullR.learnr 0.2.1

    A maintenance release whose notes say only that it contains minor improvements and bug fixes.

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  5. 1y ago

    Reliability testing tutorial covering growth analysis and ALT

    The second tutorial module, covering reliability growth analysis and accelerated life testing — the first clear instance of teaching material arriving to match capabilities in the maintainer's analysis packages, a pattern every later release repeats.

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  6. 3y ago

    First release: the life data analysis tutorial

    The initial module, at that point a single Weibull-focused tutorial. Everything since has been widening from that starting point toward reliability engineering as a whole, a shift the later rename made explicit.

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