INLAvaan

0.2.5

Approximate Bayesian Latent Variable Analysis

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1.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Haziq JamilFirst published 2026-01-274 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: 7.3 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.32

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

None

Vignettes

Yes

README

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Downloads

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CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #13,311 · ~4/day · ~136/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ haziqj/inlavaan

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

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

Code Composition

R 11,957 (81%)Rd 2,196 (15%)Vignettes 406 (3%)Other 256 (2%)

Code characteristics

Object systems

S317S4 class1S4 generic4S4 method14

Cyclomatic complexity: 3.0 median / 73 max
Test cases: 162 / 0.32 per code line
Documented parameters: 91%

Test coverage

Line coverage

–

Expression

–

Tests / Examples

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Functions

116 18 exported

Complexity

5.9 avg / 73 max

Call network

116 nodes / 112 edges

Test coverage has not been measured for this package yet; nodes fall back to a neutral fill.

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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

Haziq Jamil

Author, Maintainer, Copyright holder

Release timeline

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

0.2.5Latest
2026-06-11 · current release · 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
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2026-01-27
Total releases: 4 / 1 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5
Download size: 1.8 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet