R Observatory: Metrics for MplusAutomation version 1.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

MplusAutomation

1.3

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

20packages depend

119.1Kdownloads / year

49.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Michael HallquistFirst published 2010-03-1033 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

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.

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.

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).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 6.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 6.10

49.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

16

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

Documentation

READMEYes · 814 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 59%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 95%
References docs: 1%

Downloads

119.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,184 · ~326/day · ~9.9K/mo

Releases R versions

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10.1K30 days

28.2K90 days

119.1K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ michaelhallquist/mplusautomation

99Stars

51Forks

39Open issues

1Open PRs

4Releases

514Commits

25Contributors

514 commits · Last activity 2026-08-03

Commits over time

2026-07-19 · 5092026-08-09 · 514

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/michaelhallquist/mplusautomation on 2026-08-23.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (2)

VS CodeRStudio project

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

16 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

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

20direct

5indirect

MplusTrees holland mplusParallel.automation BifactorIndicesCalculator LCPA MplusLGM aMNLFA autoFC mlVAR plotSEMM tidyLPA tidySEM ShortForm bifactory idiographic modsem powerNLSEM semPlot stuart thurstonianIRT

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (4)

Maintainer (1)

Michael Hallquist

Author, Maintainer

Authors (2)

Michael Hallquist

Author, Maintainer

Joshua Wiley

Author · added in 0.5-4

Contributors (2)

Daniel Morillo

Contributor · added in 0.8

Caspar van Lissa

Contributor · added in 0.7-2

Package Timeline

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

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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
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Hallquist, M., Morillo, D., Wiley, J., & van Lissa, C. (2026). MplusAutomation: An R Package for Facilitating Large-Scale Latent Variable Analyses in Mplus (Version 1.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.MplusAutomation

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for MplusAutomation version 1.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-25. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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