R Observatory: Metrics for phantSEM version 1.0.1

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

phantSEM

1.0.1Package record

Create Phantom Variables in Structural Equation Models for Sensitivity Analyses

0packages depend

4.8Kdownloads / year

75.7%test coverage

13/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Alexis GeorgesonCRAN page ↗

Create phantom variables, which are variables that were not observed, for the purpose of sensitivity analyses for structural equation models. The package makes it easier for a user to test different combinations of covariances between the phantom variable(s) and observed variables. The package may be used to assess a model's or effect's sensitivity to temporal bias (e.g., if cross-sectional data were collected) or confounding bias.

Changes in 1.0.1

Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
Updated lavaan compatibility for correlation-to-covariance conversion (prefers lav_cor2cov() when available).

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

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

install.packages("phantSEM", 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-phantsem

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-phantSEM

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-phantSEM

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

13OK

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Status changes

OK13 OK2026-08-05
NOTE12 OK, 1 NOTE2026-08-01
OK13 OK2026-06-09
ERROR12 OK, 1 ERROR2026-06-07
OK14 OK2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

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Documentation

In release 1.0.1

READMEYes · 159 wordsVignettesYes · 1 · dynamicNEWSYes · 67% structured · mentions 1.0.1Citation fileNoWebsitenot declared in DESCRIPTION

Help pages: 7 (2 internal)includes a package overview page
Examples that run: 100%5 run in a plain check
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
Help pages citing references: 0%

Vignettes (1)

phantSEM HTML

How these are measured

Downloads

4.8K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #7,359 · ~13/day · ~403/mo

Releases R versions

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48130 days

1.2K90 days

4.8K1 year

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How downloads are counted

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing phantSEM adds 26 packages (15 with compiled code, 20 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: stringi 11 MB, lavaan 1.6 MB, vctrs 1.0 MB.

Depends (1)

R >= 3.5.1

Imports (4)

tidyr dplyr corpcor lavaan

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

knitr rmarkdown testthat devtools tidyverse

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

0direct

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Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Alexis Georgeson

Releases (2)

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Package metadata

First published: 2023-09-07
Total releases: 2 / 3 yrs
License: MIT + file LICENSE OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 3.5.1
Download size: 3.5 MB

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("phantSEM")

Format

Georgeson, A. (2026). phantSEM: Create Phantom Variables in Structural Equation Models for Sensitivity Analyses (Version 1.0.1) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.phantSEM

This package has no citation file, so citation() returns this entry built from DESCRIPTION.

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Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for phantSEM version 1.0.1 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-23. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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