R Observatory: Metrics for lavaan version 0.7-2

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

lavaan

0.7-2

Latent Variable Analysis

216packages depend

985Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Yves RosseelFirst published 2012-09-0837 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Fit a variety of latent variable models, including confirmatory factor analysis, structural equation modeling and latent growth curve models.

Install

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

install.packages("lavaan", 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("yrosseel/lavaan")

Development version from yrosseel/lavaan. 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-lavaan

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-lavaan

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-lavaan

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 11.6 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

99%

Documentation · exports

10

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
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMEYes · 211 wordsVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 95%
Documented parameters: 95%
Return-value docs: 64%
References docs: 40%

Downloads

985K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #390 · ~2.7K/day · ~82.1K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

70.6K30 days

234.1K90 days

985K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on7K r2u201 autocran8.3K conda_forge220 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ yrosseel/lavaan

508Stars

120Forks

7Open issues

0Open PRs

0Releases

3,191Commits

36Contributors

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

License GPL-3.0 · 3,191 commits · Last activity 2026-08-14 · +0.2% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-08-08 · 4682026-08-18 · 508

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/yrosseel/lavaan on 2026-08-16.

Continuous integration (1)

GitHub Actions

Git structural (1)

.gitattributes

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 2026-03-17

claude

Most recent: claude on 2026-03-17

Evidence

claude: on 2026-03-17 · evidence B, D

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

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

4 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 3.4

Imports (10)

methodsstats4statsutilsgraphicsMASSmnormt pbivnorm numDeriv quadprog

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (0)

none

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

216direct

83indirect

and 168 more packages.

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (17)

Maintainer (1)

Yves Rosseel

Author, Maintainer

Authors (3)

Yves Rosseel

Author, Maintainer

Luc De Wilde

Author

Terrence D. Jorgensen

Author

Contributors (14)

Mariska Barendse

Contributor · added in 0.5-15

Jarrett Byrnes

Contributor

Franz Classe

Contributor · added in 0.6-18

Han Du

Contributor · added in 0.6-8

Michael Hallquist

Contributor · added in 0.5-10

Haziq Jamil

Contributor · added in 0.6-17

Myrsini Katsikatsou

Contributor · added in 0.5-10

Ed Merkle

Contributor

Show 6 more contributors

Daniel Oberski

Contributor

Mijke Rhemtulla

Contributor · added in 0.5-10

Nicholas Rockwood

Contributor

Victoria Savalei

Contributor

Florian Scharf

Contributor · added in 0.6-4

Leonard Vanbrabant

Contributor

Listed in earlier versions (5)

Michael Chow

no longer listed · 0.5-23.1097 to 0.6-3

Terrence Jorgensen

no longer listed · 0.5-23.1097

Jorgensen

no longer listed · 0.6-1 to 0.7-2

Rockwood

no longer listed · 0.6-7 to 0.7-2

De Wilde

no longer listed · 0.6-17 to 0.7-2

Package Timeline

37 releases. Pick two to compare their code metrics. R releases are shown for context.

0.7-2Latest
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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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R 4.4.0 released · 2024-04-24
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R 4.3.0 released · 2023-04-21
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2022-07-04 · diff ↗
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22

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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 4.0.0 released · 2020-04-24
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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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
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2013-05-11 · diff ↗
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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2013-03-08 · diff ↗
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2012-12-19 · diff ↗
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2012-10-25 · diff ↗
0.5-9
2012-09-08
removedRemoved from CRAN
2012-09-07
uncredited copying of code contrary to its licence
R
R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

Package metadata

First published: 2012-09-08
Total releases: 37 / 14 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.4
Bundled data: 213 KB / 4 files
Download size: 1.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

Appears in task views

Econometrics Missing Data Mixed, Multilevel, and Hierarchical Models in R Psychometric Models and Methods

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citation("lavaan")

Format

Rosseel, Y., Barendse, M., Byrnes, J., Classe, F., De Wilde, L., Du, H., Hallquist, M., Jamil, H., Jorgensen, T. D., Katsikatsou, M., Merkle, E., Oberski, D., Rhemtulla, M., Rockwood, N., Savalei, V., Scharf, F., & Vanbrabant, L. (2026). lavaan: Latent Variable Analysis (Version 0.7-2) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.lavaan

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for lavaan version 0.7-2 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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