R Observatory: Metrics for INLAvaan version 0.3.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

INLAvaan

0.3.1

Approximate Bayesian Latent Variable Analysis

0packages depend

2Kdownloads / year

94.9%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Haziq JamilFirst published 2026-01-276 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Implements approximate Bayesian inference for Structural Equation Models (SEM) using a custom adaptation of the Integrated Nested Laplace Approximation (Rue et al., 2009) doi:10.1111/j.1467-9868.2008.00700.x as described in Jamil and Rue (2026a) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2603.25690. Provides a computationally efficient alternative to Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) for Bayesian estimation, allowing users to fit latent variable models using the 'lavaan' syntax. See also the companion paper on implementation and workflows, Jamil and Rue (2026b) doi:10.48550/arXiv.2604.00671.

Install

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

install.packages("INLAvaan", 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("haziqj/INLAvaan")

Development version from haziqj/INLAvaan. 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-inlavaan

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-INLAvaan

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-INLAvaan

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 12.4 min · r-oldrel-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.44

94.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

7

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-05
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-07-25
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-07-13
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 552 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 47%
Documented parameters: 92%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 9%

Downloads

2K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #12,095 · ~6/day · ~170/mo

Releases R versions

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20730 days

83890 days

2K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ haziqj/inlavaan

14Stars

1Forks

8Open issues

1Open PRs

7Releases

653Commits

2Contributors

bayesian-inferencefactor-analysisinlapsychometricsstatistical-modelingstructural-equation-modelingbayesian-statisticsgrowth-curve-models

License GPL-3.0 · 653 commits · Last activity 2026-08-17

Releases over time

2026-07-14 · 62026-07-22 · 7

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

6 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/haziqj/inlavaan on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

data-raw/

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Docs source (1)

README.Rmd

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Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

Coverage (1)

Codecov

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

12 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5

Imports (7)

cligraphicslavaanmethodsparallelstatsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (10)

blavaan ggplot2 knitr lme4 numDeriv qrng quarto sn testthat ucminf

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (3)

Maintainer (1)

Haziq Jamil

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Authors (1)

Haziq Jamil

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Contributors (2)

Alvin Bong

Contributor

Håvard Rue

Contributor

Copyright holders (1)

Haziq Jamil

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Package Timeline

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

0.3.1Latest
2026-07-22 · current release · diff ↗
0.3.0
2026-07-11 · diff ↗
0.2.5
2026-06-11 · diff ↗
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
0.2.4
2026-04-03 · diff ↗
0.2.3
2026-01-28 · diff ↗
0.2.2
2026-01-27
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-27
Total releases: 6 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 1.9 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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citation("INLAvaan")

Format

Jamil, H., Bong, A., & Rue, H. (2026). INLAvaan: Approximate Bayesian Latent Variable Analysis (Version 0.3.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.INLAvaan

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for INLAvaan version 0.3.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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