R Observatory: Metrics for lvnet version 0.3.5

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

lvnet

0.3.5Package record

Latent Variable Network Modeling

0packages depend

3.9Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Sacha EpskampCRAN page ↗

Estimate, fit and compare Structural Equation Models (SEM) and network models (Gaussian Graphical Models; GGM) using OpenMx. Allows for two possible generalizations to include GGMs in SEM: GGMs can be used between latent variables (latent network modeling; LNM) or between residuals (residual network modeling; RNM). For details, see Epskamp, Rhemtulla and Borsboom (2017) doi:10.1007/s11336-017-9557-x.

Changes in 0.3.5

lvnet is now no longer supported, with most functionality moved to the psychonetrics package. A message now warns users of this on loading the package.

From NEWS in the release

Install

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

install.packages("lvnet", 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-lvnet

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-lvnet

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-lvnet

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: ‘Sacha Epskamp <mail@sachaepskamp.com>’

No Authors@R field in DESCRIPTION.
Please add one, modifying
  Authors@R: person(given = "Sacha",
                    family = "Epskamp",
                    role = c("aut", "cre"),
                    email = "mail@sachaepskamp.com")
as necessary.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 3.2 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTE2026-06-09
ERROR11 OK, 1 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-06-08
NOTE10 OK, 2 NOTE2026-04-25
ERROR11 OK, 2 NOTE, 1 ERROR2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.3.5

READMENoVignettesNoNEWSYes · 33% structured · mentions 0.3.5Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 11
Examples that run: 60%3 run in a plain check · 2 never run
Exported functions with examples: 56%
Documented parameters: 96%
Return-value docs: 56%
Help pages citing references: 27%

How these are measured

Downloads

3.9K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #9,620 · ~11/day · ~326/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

43330 days

1K90 days

3.9K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on88 r2u5 autocran147 c2d4u

How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing lvnet adds 86 packages (49 with compiled code, 90 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: BH 14 MB, stringi 11 MB, ggplot2 6.0 MB.

Depends (2)

R >= 3.2.0OpenMx

Imports (11)

glasso qgraphMatrixpsych mvtnormparallelcorpcor dplyrmethodslavaan semPlot

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

People & History

People (from the free-text Author field) (1)

Sacha Epskamp

Maintainer since 0.2 (2016)

Releases (7)

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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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2016-11-25 · diff ↗ ·
added 1 export
lav2lvnet

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2016-10-01
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-10-01
Total releases: 7 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.2.0
Download size: 37 KB

Appears in task views

Graphical Models Psychometric Models and Methods

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("lvnet")

Cite the R Observatory

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for lvnet version 0.3.5 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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