latentFactoR

0.0.8

Data Simulation Based on Latent Factors

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Overview

About

Maintained by Alexander ChristensenFirst published 2022-09-096 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Generates data based on latent factor models. Data can be continuous, polytomous, dichotomous, or mixed. Skews, cross-loadings, wording effects, population errors, and local dependencies can be added. All parameters can be manipulated. Data categorization is based on Garrido, Abad, and Ponsoda (2011) doi:10.1177/0013164410389489.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("latentFactoR", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("AlexChristensen/latentFactoR")

Development version from AlexChristensen/latentFactoR. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-latentfactor

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-latentFactoR

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.2 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

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Coverage

100%

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ERROR2026-06-08
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OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-03-10
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 94%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 76%

Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ alexchristensen/latentfactor

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License GPL-3.0 · Last activity 2026-07-28

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

14 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.6.0

Imports (14)

BBmisc car EGAnet fspe googledrive ineq lavaanMatrixmethodsmlr mvtnorm psych rstudioapi xgboost

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none

Suggests (2)

ggplot2 scales

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Code & Tests

People & History

People (11)

Maintainer (1)

Alexander Christensen

Author, Maintainer

Authors (6)

Alexander Christensen

Author, Maintainer

Luis Eduardo Garrido

Author

Vithor Franco

Author · added in 0.0.3

Hudson Golino

Author

Marcos Jimenez

Author · added in 0.0.3

Maria Dolores Nieto Canaveras

Author

Contributors (5)

Francisco Abad

Contributor · added in 0.0.3

David Blackman

Contributor · added in 0.0.8

John Burkardt

Eduardo Garcia-Garzon

Contributor · added in 0.0.3

Sebastiano Vigna

Contributor · added in 0.0.8

John Burkardt

Package Timeline

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0.0.8Latest
2026-07-29 · current release · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.0.7
2025-11-03 · diff ↗
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.0.6
2024-04-18 · diff ↗
unarchivedReturned to CRAN
2024-04-18
archivedRemoved from CRAN
2023-10-13
requires archived package 'BFpack'
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
0.0.4
2022-11-22 · diff ↗
0.0.3
2022-10-13 · diff ↗
0.0.2
2022-09-09
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

Package metadata

First published: 2022-09-09
Total releases: 6 / 4 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3.0)
Minimum R: ≥ 3.6.0
Bundled data: 5.0 KB / 1 file
Download size: 76 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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