R Observatory: Metrics for MplusAutomation version 1.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MplusAutomation

1.3Package record

An R Package for Facilitating Large-Scale Latent Variable Analyses in Mplus

11packages dependsuggested by 8

106.4Kdownloads / year

49.0%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael HallquistCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Leverages the R language to automate latent variable model estimation and interpretation using 'Mplus', a powerful latent variable modeling program developed by Muthen and Muthen (https://www.statmodel.com). Specifically, this package provides routines for creating related groups of models, running batches of models, and extracting and tabulating model parameters and fit statistics.

Changes in 1.3

feature: readModels now parses input MODEL sections into $model_table, a syntax-oriented data.frame with parameter headers, labels, modifiers, values, fixed/free status, and source sections
feature: readModels now extracts TECH4 standard errors, Est./S.E. values, and p-values for latent means, covariances, and correlations alongside the estimate matrices
feature: TECH10 section is now parsed into $tech10 by readModels
feature: mplusModel now supports update() semantics like mplusObject and base R objects
feature: mplusModel now supports clearer entry points, including from an existing out_file
feature: expose a digits argument for SummaryTable to allow user to control rounding/precision for numeric fields. Closes #216 and #153.
feature: readModels parses final estimates as starting values section (produced by OUTPUT: SVALUES) into $svalues and $parameters$svalues. Closes #214
feature: readModels extracts information about random starts, including final stage log-likelihoods into $random_starts. Closes #214
bugfix: support extraction of TECH11 and other sections when they are interrupted by warnings or errors
bugfix: handle non-UTF8 inputs using sanitize_mplus_text function. Closes #215
bugfix: error in mplusModeler() when user provides NAMES statement and also uses rdata (which generates NAMES). Closes #164
bugfix: expand TECH4 parsing to preserve estimate matrices when Mplus repeats "ESTIMATES DERIVED FROM THE MODEL" subsections for estimates versus S.E./test-statistic blocks

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bugfix: improve grouped TECH4 and SVALUES handling, including regression coverage for grouped User's Guide examples such as ex5.16

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("MplusAutomation", 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("michaelhallquist/MplusAutomation")

Development version from michaelhallquist/MplusAutomation. 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-mplusautomation

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

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-MplusAutomation

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-MplusAutomation

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 5.9 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-09-08
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 1.3

READMEYes · 814 wordsVignettesYes · 3 · dynamicNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 1.3Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes · pkgdown

Help pages: 145 (98 internal)
Examples that run: 20%18 run in a plain check · 40 never run · 33 hold no code
Exported functions with examples: 95%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 95%
Help pages citing references: 1%

Vignettes (3)

How these are measured

Downloads

106.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,278 · ~292/day · ~8.9K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

6.5K30 days

23.5K90 days

106.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on1.3K r2u2 autocran173 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Repository

michaelhallquist/mplusautomation ↗Account: michaelhallquist

101Stars

52Forks

40Open issues

2Open PRs

4Releases

514Commits

25Commit identities

514 commits · Last activity 2026-08-03 · +1% stars, 30d · Default branch at 1.4, ahead of CRAN 1.3 (checked 2026-10-18)

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 89%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 221
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 4

Stars over time

2026-07-14 · 992026-08-31 · 100

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

7 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 3 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/michaelhallquist/mplusautomation on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (2)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflow

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (3)

pkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-08-03 · The repository has a site deploy workflow

pkgdown site last built 2026-08-03

Lint, format, editor (2)

VS CodeRStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

AI coding toolsBeta

This repository shows signs of AI coding tools.

Codexfirst seen 2025-08-13
Pull request it wrote: opened by a project member

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v4 (updated 2026-09-27)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing MplusAutomation adds 44 packages (24 with compiled code, 40 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.5.0methods

Imports (15)

utilsbootplyr gsubfn coda xtablelatticetexreg pander digestparallelggplot2 data.table fastDummies checkmate

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (6)

rhdf5tcltkrelimp knitr testthat rmarkdown

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

11direct

5indirect

Depends 3 · Imports 8

Suggested by 8

Show all 19 packagesHide all 19 packages

Depends, Imports or LinkingTo, most downloaded first

tidySEM tidyLPA mlVAR BifactorIndicesCalculator autoFC LCPA holland plotSEMM MplusTrees mplusParallel.automation MplusLGM

Suggests, most downloaded first

semPlot modsem ShortForm thurstonianIRT bifactory idiographic stuart powerNLSEM

How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Michael Hallquist

Author, Maintainer since 0.2-1 (2010)

Joshua Wiley

Author · added in 0.5-4

Daniel Morillo

Contributor · added in 0.8

Caspar van Lissa

Contributor · added in 0.7-2

Releases (33)

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1.3Latest
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2026-06-24 · current release · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
get_model_table
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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.2
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2025-09-02 · diff ↗ ·
removed 7 exports
detectVariables, extractModIndices, extractModelParameters, extractModelSummaries, getSavedata_Bparams, getSavedata_Data, getSavedata_Fileinfo

added 3 exports
checkSubmission, mplusModel, submitModels
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
1.1.1
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2024-01-31 · diff ↗
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
1.1.0
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2022-04-06 · diff ↗
1.0.0
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2021-07-01 · diff ↗ ·
added 28 exports
detectMplus, get_bparameters, get_class_counts, get_covariance_coverage, get_data_summary, get_fac_score_stats, get_gh5, get_indirect, get_input, get_invariance_testing, get_lcCondMeans, get_mod_indices, get_parameters, get_residuals, get_results, get_sampstat, get_savedata, get_summaries, get_tech1, get_tech10, get_tech12, get_tech15, get_tech3, get_tech4, get_tech7, get_tech8, get_tech9, get_warn_err
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
0.8
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2020-10-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
mplusGLM
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
0.7-3
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2018-11-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
mplusAvailable
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23

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0.7-2
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2018-04-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 6 exports
createMixtures, mixtureSummaryTable, plotGrowthMixtures, plotLTA, plotMixtureDensities, plotMixtures
0.7-1
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2018-01-31 · diff ↗
0.7
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2017-07-14 · diff ↗ ·
added 4 exports
detectVariables, long2LGMM, parseCatOutput, trainLGMM
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.6-4
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2016-06-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
SummaryTable
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
0.6-3
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2014-10-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
extract.mplus.model, extract.mplusObject
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
0.6-2
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2013-10-24 · diff ↗
0.6-1
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2013-05-09 · diff ↗
0.6
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2013-05-06 · diff ↗ ·
added 7 exports
cd, createSyntax, mplusModeler, mplusObject, mplusRcov, paramExtract, parseMplus
R
R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
0.5-4
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2013-02-15 · diff ↗
0.5-3
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2012-08-08 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
mplus.traceplot
0.5-2
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2012-07-12 · diff ↗
0.5-1
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2012-04-03 · diff ↗
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30
0.5
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2011-12-09 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
compareModels, lookupTech1Parameter
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R 2.14.0 released · 2011-10-31
0.4-3
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2011-07-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
getSavedata_Bparams, testBParamConstraint, testBParamCompoundConstraint
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R 2.13.0 released · 2011-04-13
0.4-2
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2011-03-19 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
extractModIndices
0.4-1
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2011-02-14 · diff ↗
0.4
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2010-11-03 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
readModels
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R 2.12.0 released · 2010-10-15
0.3-3
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2010-07-24 · diff ↗
0.3-2
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2010-05-22 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
prepareMplusData
0.3-1
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2010-05-18 · diff ↗
0.3
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2010-05-10 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
createTable

added 1 export
createModels
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R 2.11.0 released · 2010-04-22
0.2-5
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2010-04-03 · diff ↗
0.2-4
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2010-03-19 · diff ↗
0.2-3
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2010-03-13 · diff ↗ ·
added 3 exports
showSummaryTable, LatexSummaryTable, HTMLSummaryTable
0.2-2
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2010-03-11 · diff ↗ ·
removed 1 export
parseModels

added 2 exports
extractModelSummaries, extractModelParameters
0.2-1
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2010-03-10
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R 2.10.0 released · 2009-10-26

Package metadata

First published: 2010-03-10
Total releases: 33 / 16 yrs
License: LGPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.0
Bundled data: 750 KB / 1 file
Download size: 7.5 MB

Appears in task views

Mixed, Multilevel, and Hierarchical Models in R Psychometric Models and Methods

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Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("MplusAutomation")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

It points to 10.1080/10705511.2017.1402334.

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for MplusAutomation version 1.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-20. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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