The package tidySEM provides a ‘tidy’ workflow for conducting, reporting, and plotting structural equation modeling analyses. It does not perform model estimation, but instead allows users to estimate models in a software-agnostic way, using either the free open source R packages lavaan or OpenMx, or the commercial closed-source program Mplus (controlled through the R package MplusAutomation). The aim of tidySEM is to provide three specific functions:
OpenMx
These functions are designed with the tidy tools manifesto (Wickham, last updated 23-11-2019) in mind, and interface with the existing suite of packages in the tidyverse.
You can install the public release of tidySEM from CRAN with:
install.packages("tidySEM")If you want access to the latest developer version, including features that may not yet be finalized, you can install the development version of tidySEM from R-universe with:
install.packages('tidySEM',
repos = c('https://cjvanlissa.r-universe.dev',
'https://cloud.r-project.org'))And if you are a developer and want to contribute to tidySEM, or want to install a specific historical version of the package, you can install directly from GitHub with:
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github('cjvanlissa/tidySEM')Every user-facing function in the package is documented, and the documentation can be accessed by running ?function_name in the R console, e.g., ?graph_sem.
Furthermore, there are three main vignettes, describing the three main tracks of tidySEM functions:
You can cite the R-package with the following citation:
Van Lissa, C. J., (2019). tidySEM: Tidy structural equation modeling. R package version 0.2.1. https://github.com/cjvanlissa/tidySEM/
If you have ideas, please get involved. You can contribute by opening an issue on ‘GitHub’, or sending a pull request with proposed features (see further instructions below).
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