R Observatory: Metrics for RAMpath version 0.5.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

RAMpath

0.5.1Package record

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

0packages depend

2.6Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Zhiyong ZhangCRAN page ↗Website ↗

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. 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-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). 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

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Zhiyong Zhang <zzhang4@nd.edu>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: c(person(given = "Zhiyong",
                      family = "Zhang",
                      role = c("aut", "cre"),
                      email = "zzhang4@nd.edu"),
               person(given = "Jack",
                      family = "McArdle",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = "Aki",
                      family = "Hamagami",
                      role = "aut"),
               person(given = c("&", "Kevin"),
                      family = "Grimm",
                      role = "aut"))
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

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

Status changes

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

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

Documentation signals are not tracked yet for this package.

WebsiteYes

How these are measured

Downloads

2.6K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #19,856 · ~7/day · ~218/mo

RAMpath Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

28830 days

65890 days

2.6K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on66 r2u6 autocran

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

2 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing RAMpath adds 6 packages (3 with compiled code, 1.9 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: lavaan 1.6 MB, ellipse 157 KB, numDeriv 74 KB.

Depends (4)

R >= 2.0lavaan ellipseMASS

Imports (0)

none

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

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People & History

People (0)

Author records are not tracked yet for this package.

Maintainer since 0.1.5 (2012)

Listed in earlier versions (5)

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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 · 0.1.5 to 0.5.1

Johnny Zhang

no longer listed · 0.1.5

Zhiyong Zhang

no longer listed · 0.2 to 0.5.1

Releases (8)

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11
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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
0.5.1Latest
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2023-08-27 · current release · 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
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
R
R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
R
R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
R
R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
R
R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
0.4
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2016-10-05 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
powerLCS, powerBLCS
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.1.0 released · 2014-04-10
0.3.8
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2014-01-22 · diff ↗

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0.3.7
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2013-08-10 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
ramReFit, ramShowModel
0.3.6
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2013-06-26 · diff ↗
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
0.3.5
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2013-03-07 · diff ↗ ·
added 2 exports
ramUniquePath, ramEffectSE
0.2
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2012-10-24 · diff ↗
0.1.5
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2012-10-08
R
R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

Package metadata

First published: 2012-10-08
Total releases: 8 / 14 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 78 KB

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for RAMpath version 0.5.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-19. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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