umx

4.65.0

Structural Equation Modeling and Twin Modeling in R

2packages depend

42Kdownloads / year

71.4%test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Timothy C. BatesFirst published 2015-08-2844 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Quickly create, run, and report structural equation models, and twin models. See '?umx' for help, and umx_open_CRAN_page("umx") for NEWS. Timothy C. Bates, Michael C. Neale, Hermine H. Maes, (2019). umx: A library for Structural Equation and Twin Modelling in R. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 22, 27-41. doi:10.1017/thg.2019.2.

Install

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

install.packages("umx", 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("tbates/umx")

Development version from tbates/umx. 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-umx

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-umx

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Failing flavors

NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang
NOTE r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Slowest check: 11.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.08

71.4%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

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Documentation

READMEYes · 505 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 67% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 54%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 96%
References docs: 58%

Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ tbates/umx

49Stars

18Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

35Releases

3,692Commits

7Contributors

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3,692 commits · Last activity 2026-07-24 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

2 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 2 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/tbates/umx on 2026-07-19.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v1 (2026-07-18)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

30 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (2)

R >= 4.1.0OpenMx

Imports (23)

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LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (12)

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Enhances (0)

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Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

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semPlot tidySEM

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (8)

Maintainer (1)

Timothy C. Bates

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Timothy C. Bates

Author, Maintainer

Contributors (5)

Luis De Araujo

Contributor · added in 4.10.50

Hermine Maes

Contributor · added in 3.0.6

Michael C. Neale

Contributor

Joshua N. Pritikin

Contributor

Brenton Wiernik

Contributor · added in 4.0.0

Other (2)

Nathan Gillespie

wit · added in 4.15.1

Michael Zakharin

wit · added in 4.9.0

Listed in earlier versions (4)

Timothy C Bates

no longer listed · 0.50 to 3.0.5

Michael C.

no longer listed · 3.0.6 to 4.65.0

Timothy C.

no longer listed · 3.0.6 to 4.65.0

Joshua N.

no longer listed · 3.0.6 to 4.65.0

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-08-28
Total releases: 44 / 11 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 257 KB / 5 files
Download size: 3.9 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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