FocusGroup: Focus Group Simulation Using LLM Agents

Moderated focus group discussions simulated with large language models. Participants carry personas built from respondent records or labeled survey files. A session runs under a specified turn-taking rule, and one turn can be experimentally manipulated to measure its effect on the next.

Version: 0.5.2
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
Imports: R6, dplyr, tidyr, rlang, haven, withr, LLMR (≥ 0.8.8)
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0), ggplot2, quanteda, quanteda.textstats, topicmodels, tidytext, knitr, rmarkdown, pkgdown, shiny, bslib, DT, LLMR.shiny (≥ 0.1.2)
Published: 2026-09-12
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.FocusGroup (may not be active yet)
Author: Ali Sanaei [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Ali Sanaei <sanaei at uchicago.edu>
BugReports: https://github.com/asanaei/FocusGroup/issues
License: MIT + file LICENSE
URL: https://github.com/asanaei/FocusGroup, https://asanaei.github.io/FocusGroup/
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: FocusGroup results

Documentation:

Reference manual: FocusGroup.html , FocusGroup.pdf
Vignettes: FocusGroup Architecture (source, R code)
Focus Group Analysis (source, R code)

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Package source: FocusGroup_0.5.2.tar.gz
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