R Observatory: Metrics for blavaan version 0.5-10

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

blavaan

0.5-10

Bayesian Latent Variable Analysis

11packages depend

118.7Kdownloads / year

0.1%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Edgar MerkleFirst published 2015-10-0740 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Fit a variety of Bayesian latent variable models, including confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation models, and latent growth curve models. References: Merkle & Rosseel (2018) doi:10.18637/jss.v085.i04; Merkle et al. (2021) doi:10.18637/jss.v100.i06.

Install

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

install.packages("blavaan", 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("ecmerkle/blavaan")

Development version from ecmerkle/blavaan. 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-blavaan

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-blavaan

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-blavaan

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 21.6 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.00

0.1%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

18

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
OK2026-07-29
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-07-27
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 7 earlier snapshots

ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-05-07
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-26
11 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-04-25
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-04-23
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-04-16
10 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-03-10
11 OK · 3 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 174 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 21%
Documented parameters: 97%
Return-value docs: 69%
References docs: 60%

Downloads

118.7K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #1,327 · ~325/day · ~9.9K/mo

Releases R versions

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7.7K30 days

22.9K90 days

118.7K1 year

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Repository

GitHub ↗ ecmerkle/blavaan

102Stars

27Forks

1Open issues

0Open PRs

20Releases

1,475Commits

10Contributors

structural-equation-modelinglatent-variablesfactor-analysisgrowth-curve-modelspath-analysismultilevel-modelsmultivariate-analysispsychometrics

1,475 commits · Last activity 2026-08-20 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-05 · 952026-07-07 · 102

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/ecmerkle/blavaan on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

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

Development tooling

AI-assisted toolingBeta

Uses AI-assisted development tooling (declared in repo)

Earliest detected marker: claude on 2026-06-05

claude

Most recent: claude on 2026-06-05

Evidence

claude: on 2026-06-05 · evidence B, D

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v2 (updated 2026-07-29)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

26 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (3)

R >= 4.1.0methodsRcpp

Imports (16)

statsutilsgraphicslavaan coda mnormt nonnest2 loo rstan rstantools RcppParallel bayesplotMatrixfuture.apply tmvnsim igraph

LinkingTo (6)

StanHeaders rstan BH Rcpp RcppEigen RcppParallel (>= 5.0.1)

Suggests (7)

runjags modeest rjags cmdstanr semTools blavsam tinytest

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

11direct

0indirect

brxx ggsem INLAvaan PsyMetricTools bayestestR insight performance rmedsem semPlot semTools tidySEM

Code & Tests

People & History

People (10)

Maintainer (1)

Edgar Merkle

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Edgar Merkle

Author, Maintainer

Ben Goodrich

Author · added in 0.3-5

Yves Rosseel

Author

Contributors (7)

Matthew Emery

Contributor · added in 0.4-3

Mauricio Garnier-Villarreal

Contributor · added in 0.2-3

Huub Hoofs

Contributor · added in 0.3-2

Andrew Johnson

Contributor · added in 0.4-3

Terrence D. Jorgensen

Contributor

Michael S. Truong

Contributor

Rens van de Schoot

Contributor · added in 0.3-2

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Jorgensen

no longer listed · 0.3-2 to 0.5-10

Truong

no longer listed · 0.5-10

Package Timeline

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Package metadata

First published: 2015-10-07
Total releases: 40 / 11 yrs
License: GPL (>= 3) OSI
Additional repositories: stan-dev.r-universe.dev, ecmerkle.github.io
Minimum R: ≥ 4.1.0
Download size: 1.6 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Bayesian Inference Mixed, Multilevel, and Hierarchical Models in R Psychometric Models and Methods

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Merkle, E., Emery, M., Garnier-Villarreal, M., Goodrich, B., Hoofs, H., Johnson, A., Jorgensen, T. D., Rosseel, Y., Truong, M. S., & van de Schoot, R. (2026). blavaan: Bayesian Latent Variable Analysis (Version 0.5-10) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.blavaan

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