How to use R-exams package to create a multi-part question? - r-exams

Question

Suppose I had an exam question such as "A car starting from rest accelerates to 26.82 m/s in 3.2 s. Compute the acceleration during this time. How far did the car travel in this time?"
I'm new to R-exams package. In the past I've used MIT's "exam" LaTex package. There, I'd do something like:
\begin{question}
A car starting from rest accelerates to 26.82 m/s in 3.2 s.
\begin{parts}
\part Compute the acceleration during this time.
\part How far did the car travel in this time?
\end{parts}
I've poked around the r-exams.org but don't see any examples of creating such a multipart question.

Answer 1

For combining multiple questions in a single exercise you can use the "cloze" type: http://www.R-exams.org/intro/dynamic/. Some concrete examples are linked from there.
In your case, if you want to use R/LaTeX markup (.Rnw) in the exercise, the question would become:
\begin{question}
A car starting from rest accelerates to 26.82 m/s in 3.2 s.
\begin{answerlist}
\item Compute the acceleration during this time.
\item How far did the car travel in this time?
\end{answerlist}
\end{question}
The corresponding meta-information needs to include something like:
\extype{cloze}
\exclozetype{num|num}
\exsolution{8.38125|42.912}
R/Markdown (.Rmd) would, of course, be possible as well. And both are hopefully straightforward to turn into dynamic exercises where the numbers are sampled randomly. Let us know if you need further help with this.