R Observatory: Metrics for RAMpath version 0.5.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RAMpath

0.5.1

Structural Equation Modeling Using the Reticular Action Model (RAM) Notation

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2.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Zhiyong ZhangFirst published 2012-10-088 releasesCRAN page ↗

We rewrite of RAMpath software developed by John McArdle and Steven Boker as an R package. In addition to performing regular SEM analysis through the R package lavaan, RAMpath has unique features. First, it can generate path diagrams according to a given model. Second, it can display path tracing rules through path diagrams and decompose total effects into their respective direct and indirect effects as well as decompose variance and covariance into individual bridges. Furthermore, RAMpath can fit dynamic system models automatically based on latent change scores and generate vector field plots based upon results obtained from a bivariate dynamic system. Starting version 0.4, RAMpath can conduct power analysis for both univariate and bivariate latent change score models.

Install

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

install.packages("RAMpath", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

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-rampath

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-RAMpath

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-RAMpath

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

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Failing flavors

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Slowest check: 1.4 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

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Coverage

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Documentation

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Examples that run: 80%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 47%
References docs: 50%

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #17,218 · ~7/day · ~214/mo

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (4)

R >= 2.0lavaan ellipseMASS

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none

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Listed in earlier versions (5)

& Kevin Grimm

no longer listed · 0.2 to 0.5.1

Aki Hamagami

no longer listed · 0.2 to 0.5.1

Jack McArdle

no longer listed · 0.2 to 0.5.1

Johnny Zhang & Jack McArdle

no longer listed · 0.1.5

Zhiyong Zhang

no longer listed · 0.2 to 0.5.1

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Package metadata

First published: 2012-10-08
Total releases: 8 / 14 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 2.0
Bundled data: 53 KB / 3 files
Download size: 78 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for RAMpath version 0.5.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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