R Observatory: Metrics for semEffect version 1.2.3

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

semEffect

1.2.3

Structural Equation Model Effect Analysis and Visualization

0packages depend

2.1Kdownloads / year

100.0%test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Weiping MeiFirst published 2025-07-041 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides standardized effect decomposition (direct, indirect, and total effects) for three major structural equation modeling frameworks: 'lavaan', 'piecewiseSEM', and 'plspm'. Automatically handles zero-effect variables, generates publication-ready 'ggplot2' visualizations, and returns both wide-format and long-format effect tables. Supports effect filtering, multi-model object inputs, and customizable visualization parameters. For a general overview of the methods used in this package, see Rosseel (2012) doi:10.18637/jss.v048.i02 and Lefcheck (2016) doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12512.

Install

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

install.packages("semEffect", 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("PhDMeiwp/semEffect")

Development version from PhDMeiwp/semEffect. 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-semeffect

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-semEffect

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-semEffect

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 3.3 min · r-release-macos-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.46

100.0%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

9

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-08-04
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
NOTE2026-08-01
12 OK · 1 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
ERROR2026-06-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesNopkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 0%
Documented parameters: 100%
Return-value docs: 100%
References docs: 0%

Downloads

2.1K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #20,526 · ~6/day · ~174/mo

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Repository

GitHub ↗ phdmeiwp/semeffect

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2Releases

46Commits

1Contributors

46 commits · Last activity 2025-09-11 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

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Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/phdmeiwp/semeffect on 2026-08-09.

Continuous integration (1)

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (1)

R >= 4.4.0

Imports (9)

lavaan piecewiseSEM plspm ggplot2 tidyr dplyrutilscheckmate RColorBrewer

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (1)

testthat

Enhances (0)

none

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Reverse dependencies

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Nothing depends on this yet.

Code & Tests

People & History

People (1)

Maintainer (1)

Weiping Mei

Author, Maintainer

Authors (1)

Weiping Mei

Author, Maintainer

Package Timeline

1 release. R releases are shown for context.

R
R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
1.2.3Latest
2026-03-10 · current release
R
R 4.5.0 released · 2025-04-11

Package metadata

First published: 2025-07-04
Total releases: 1 / 1 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.4.0
Download size: 6.3 KB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Run in R for the authors' preferred citation:

citation("semEffect")

Format

Mei, W. (2025). semEffect: Structural Equation Model Effect Analysis and Visualization (Version 1.2.3) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.semEffect

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for semEffect version 1.2.3 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-13. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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