seminr

2.5.0

Building and Estimating Structural Equation Models

2packages depend

40.6Kdownloads / year

86.4%test coverage

12/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Nicholas Patrick DanksFirst published 2018-01-0528 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

A powerful, easy to use syntax for specifying and estimating complex Structural Equation Models. Models can be estimated using Partial Least Squares Path Modeling or Covariance-Based Structural Equation Modeling or covariance based Confirmatory Factor Analysis (Ray, Danks, and Valdez 2021 doi:10.2139/ssrn.3900621).

Install

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

install.packages("seminr", 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("sem-in-r/seminr")

Development version from sem-in-r/seminr. 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-seminr

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

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-seminr

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# 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-seminr

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

Health

CRAN checks

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Failing flavors

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Slowest check: 9.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

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Tests · ratio 0.98

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Coverage · measured lines

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Documentation · exports

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Documentation

READMEYes · 1,101 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 98%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 84%
References docs: 16%

Downloads

40.6K

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Repository

GitHub ↗ sem-in-r/seminr

78Stars

29Forks

37Open issues

3Open PRs

2Releases

589Commits

9Contributors

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589 commits · Last activity 2026-07-11 · +4% stars, 30d

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CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

8 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (6)

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Suggests (4)

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Enhances (0)

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Reverse dependencies

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Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (10)

Maintainer (1)

Nicholas Patrick Danks

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.0.1

Authors (3)

Nicholas Patrick Danks

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.0.1

André Calero Valdez

Author · added in 2.0.0

Soumya Ray

Author, Thesis advisor

Contributors (7)

Susanne Adler

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Laura Burbach

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Arturo Heynar Cano Bejar

Contributor · added in 1.1.0

Juan Manuel Velasquez Estrada

Contributor · added in 0.4.0

Lilian Koyan

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

Johannes Nakayama

Contributor · added in 2.0.0

James Uanhoro

Contributor · added in 1.1.0

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Nicholas Danks

no longer listed · 0.3.1 to 1.0.0

Package Timeline

28 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

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Package metadata

First published: 2018-01-05
Total releases: 28 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 21 KB / 4 files
Download size: 1.6 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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