R Observatory: Metrics for Path.Analysis version 0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

Path.Analysis

0.1Package record

Path Coefficient Analysis

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2.7Kdownloads / year

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Overview

About

Maintained by Ali ArminianCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗

Facilitates the performance of several analyses, including simple and sequential path coefficient analysis, correlation estimate, drawing correlogram, Heatmap, and path diagram. When working with raw data, that includes one or more dependent variables along with one or more independent variables are available, the path coefficient analysis can be conducted. It allows for testing direct effects, which can be a vital indicator in path coefficient analysis. The process of preparing the dataset rule is explained in detail in the vignette file "Path.Analysis_manual.Rmd". You can find this in the folders labelled "data" and "~/inst/extdata". Also see: 1)the 'lavaan', 2)a sample of sequential path analysis in 'metan' suggested by Olivoto and Lúcio (2020) doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13384, 3)the simple 'PATHSAS' macro written in 'SAS' by Cramer et al. (1999) doi:10.1093/jhered/90.1.260, and 4)the semPlot() function of 'OpenMx' as initial tools for conducting path coefficient analyses and SEM (Structural Equation Modeling). To gain a comprehensive understanding of path coefficient analysis, both in theory and practice, see a 'Minitab' macro developed by Arminian, A. in the paper by Arminian et al. (2008) doi:10.1080/15427520802043182.

Changes in 0.1

Diagram of the path coefficient analysis added via corrplot::DiagrammeR.
Correlation plot added via performanceAnalytics.
Advanced Heatmap feature added (ComplexHeatmap replaced with heatmap.2 and heatmap3`.
The initial edition of this software was established in 2022 (unpublished).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)

install.packages("Path.Analysis", 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("abeyran/Path.Analysis")

Development version from abeyran/Path.Analysis. 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-path.analysis

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

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTEdependencies in R coder-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-gcc

Namespaces in Imports field not imported from:
  ‘ComplexHeatmap’ ‘mathjaxr’
All declared Imports should be used.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.5 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-09-08
ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-09-07
NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR10 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

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Documentation

In release 0.1

READMEYes · 194 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 0.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 15includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 0%13 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 88%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 33%

Vignettes (1)

Path coefficient analysis HTML

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CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #15,971 · ~8/day · ~229/mo

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Repository

abeyran/path.analysis ↗Account: abeyran

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49Commits

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49 commits · Last activity 2024-09-26

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2021-07-07 · 12026-07-07 · 1

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PracticesBeta

Checks run against github.com/abeyran/path.analysis on 2026-10-18.

No development-tooling practices detected in the upstream repository.

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

18 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing Path.Analysis adds 109 packages (55 with compiled code, 107 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB, data.table 5.7 MB. 1 more not on CRAN is not measured.

Depends (1)

R >= 4.1.0

Imports (12)

statscorrr corrplot Hmisc gplots mathjaxr pastecsgraphicsgrDevicesDiagrammeR ComplexHeatmap metan

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none

Suggests (9)

car ggplot2 devtools usethis testthat knitr rmarkdown roxygen2 spelling

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People (1)

Ali Arminian

Releases (1)

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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Package metadata

First published: 2024-09-25
Total releases: 1 / 2 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Copyright: Ali Arminian
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Bundled data: 15 KB / 6 files
Download size: 1.0 MB

Cite

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citation("Path.Analysis")

Format

Arminian, A. (2026). Path.Analysis: Path Coefficient Analysis (Version 0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.Path.Analysis

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APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for Path.Analysis version 0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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