R Observatory: Metrics for OpenMx version 2.22.11

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

OpenMx

2.22.11Package record

Extended Structural Equation Modelling

21packages dependsuggested by 15

300.4Kdownloads / year

53.2%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Robert M. KirkpatrickCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Website ↗Issues ↗

Create structural equation models that can be manipulated programmatically. Models may be specified with matrices or paths (LISREL or RAM) Example models include confirmatory factor, multiple group, mixture distribution, categorical threshold, modern test theory, differential Fit functions include full information maximum likelihood, maximum likelihood, and weighted least squares. equations, state space, and many others. Support and advanced package binaries available at https://openmx.ssri.psu.edu. The software is described in Neale, Hunter, Pritikin, Zahery, Brick, Kirkpatrick, Estabrook, Bates, Maes, & Boker (2016) doi:10.1007/s11336-014-9435-8.

Install

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

install.packages("OpenMx", 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("OpenMx/OpenMx")

Development version from OpenMx/OpenMx. 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-openmx

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-OpenMx

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-OpenMx

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

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTERd contentsr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Rd files without \usage:
  ‘mxAlgebraObjective.Rd’ ‘mxFIMLObjective.Rd’ ‘mxMLObjective.Rd’
  ‘mxRAMObjective.Rd’ ‘mxRObjective.Rd’ ‘mxRowObjective.Rd’
\arguments should not be documented without \usage.

Additional issues

rchk

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 89.0 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-07-11
OK13 OK2026-05-03
WARNING12 OK, 1 WARNING2026-04-30
OK12 OK2026-04-25
ERROR11 OK, 3 ERROR2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 2.22.11

READMEYes · 731 wordsVignettesYes · 5 · staticNEWSYes · 100% structured · does not mention 2.22.11Citation fileYes · cites a publicationWebsiteYes

Help pages: 332includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 98%157 run in a plain check · 3 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran) · 1 never run
Exported functions with examples: 79%
Documented parameters: 99%
Return-value docs: 7%
Help pages citing references: 35%

Also includes 68 demo scripts (run with demo())

Vignettes (5)

How these are measured

Downloads

300.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,026 · ~823/day · ~25K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

11.6K30 days

37.9K90 days

300.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

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How downloads are counted

Repository

openmx/openmx ↗Organization: OpenMx

102Stars

36Forks

92Open issues

1Open PRs

0Releases

9,615Commits

54Commit identities

statisticspsychologyrc-plus-plusstructural-equation-modelingbehavior-geneticsopenmxestimation

9,615 commits · Last activity 2026-10-16 · -1% stars, 30d · The default branch showed an older version (2.22.10-15) than CRAN on 2026-10-18

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 81%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 582
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 5

Stars over time

2025-10-05 · 952026-10-02 · 102

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

12 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 8 families in the upstream repository

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

Continuous integration (3)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux

Governance and community (1)

Contributing guide

Docs source (1)

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2026-10-16

Coverage (2)

Coverage reporting (Codecov).covrignore

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Reproducibility and dev environment (1)

Makefile

CRAN release process (1)

revdep/

Lint, format, editor (2)

EditorConfigRStudio project

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

24 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing OpenMx adds 11 packages (9 with compiled code, 24 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, StanHeaders 2.5 MB, Rcpp 1.8 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.0

Imports (8)

digestMASSMatrixmethodsRcpp RcppParallelparallellifecycle

LinkingTo (7)

Rcpp RcppEigen RcppParallel StanHeaders BH rpfMatrix

Suggests (14)

mvtnorm numDeriv roxygen2 rpf snowfall lme4 covr testthat ifaTools knitr markdown rmarkdown reshape2 ggplot2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

21direct

17indirect

Depends 13 · Imports 8

Suggested by 15

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How these are counted

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (39)

Robert M. Kirkpatrick

Author, Maintainer since 2.21.13 (2024)

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Charles Driver

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Michael J. Wilde

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Don van den Bergh

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Timo von Oertzen

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Association for Computing Machinery

Copyright holder · added in 2.6.7

Manjunath B G

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Copyright holder · added in 2.6.7

The Regents of the University of California

Copyright holder · added in 2.11.3

Carl F. Falk

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Gael Guennebaud

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Lester Ingber

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Matt Keller

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Dieter Kraft

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Sarah Medland

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Jitse Niesen

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Juan Palacios

Copyright holder · added in 2.13.0

Wong Shao Voon

Copyright holder · added in 2.11.3

Stefan Wilhelm

Copyright holder · added in 2.7.2

Jiang Yang

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Previously maintained by Joshua N. Pritikin (2.2.2 to 2.21.12).

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