R Observatory: Metrics for semTools version 0.5-9

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

semTools

0.5-9

Useful Tools for Structural Equation Modeling

19packages depend

252.4Kdownloads / year

–test coverage

13/13checks pass

Overview

About

Maintained by Terrence D. JorgensenFirst published 2012-05-1831 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Provides miscellaneous tools for structural equation modeling, many of which extend the 'lavaan' package. For example, latent interactions can be estimated using product indicators (Lin et al., 2010, doi:10.1080/10705511.2010.488999) and simple effects probed; analytical power analyses can be conducted (Jak et al., 2021, doi:10.3758/s13428-020-01479-0); and scale reliability can be estimated based on estimated factor-model parameters.

Install

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

install.packages("semTools", 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("simsem/semTools")

Development version from simsem/semTools. 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-semtools

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-semTools

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-semTools

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

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 6.6 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Code health

None

Tests · ratio 0.00

not tracked

Coverage

100%

Documentation · exports

6

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
OK2026-07-10
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
WARNING2026-07-08
12 OK · 0 NOTE · 1 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE
OK2026-06-09
13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Show 2 earlier snapshots

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

READMEYes · 226 wordsVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSYes · 100% structuredCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 97%
Documented parameters: 93%
Return-value docs: 86%
References docs: 68%

Downloads

252.4K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #824 · ~692/day · ~21K/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

17.5K30 days

59.4K90 days

252.4K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on536 r2u201 autocran3.6K conda_forge106 c2d4u

Repository

GitHub ↗ simsem/semtools

85Stars

37Forks

6Open issues

3Open PRs

0Releases

925Commits

21Contributors

925 commits · Last activity 2026-07-14 · 0% stars, 30d

Stars over time

2025-06-21 · 812026-07-07 · 85

Repository practices

Upstream repositoryBeta

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

Checks run against github.com/simsem/semtools 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)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

9 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (3)

R >= 4.0lavaanmethods

Imports (4)

graphicspbivnormstatsutils

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (9)

blavaan emmeans lavaan.miMASSmice mnormtparallelrestriktor testthat

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

19direct

24indirect

RSAtools EFA.dimensions MBESS PsyMetricTools conmet kfa manymome pwr2ppl semdrw silp statpsych EFAtools PsychoMatic blavaan mnonr powerNLSEM quest semhelpinghands simsem

Code & Tests

Datasets

People & History

People (27)

Maintainer (1)

Terrence D. Jorgensen

Author, Maintainer

Authors (4)

Terrence D. Jorgensen

Author, Maintainer

Sunthud Pornprasertmanit

Author

Yves Rosseel

Author

Alexander M. Schoemann

Author

Contributors (23)

Ruben Arslan

Contributor · added in 0.5-3

Mattan S. Ben-Shachar

Contributor · added in 0.5-3

Aaron Boulton

Contributor · added in 0.2-7

Jarrett Byrnes

Contributor · added in 0.4-9

Steven Chesnut

Contributor · added in 0.4-6

Bell Clinton

Contributor · added in 2.15.3

Donna Coffman

Contributor · added in 0.2-7

Craig Enders

Contributor · added in 0.2-7

Show 15 more contributors

Mauricio Garnier-Villarreal

Contributor · added in 0.4-6

Andrew R. Johnson

Contributor · added in 0.5-5

Ylenio Longo

Contributor · added in 0.4-12

Maxwell Mansolf

Contributor · added in 0.5-0

Edgar Merkle

Contributor · added in 0.4-6

Patrick Miller

Contributor

Pavel Panko

Contributor · added in 2.15.3

Kristopher Preacher

Contributor · added in 0.2-7

Corbin Quick

Contributor · added in 0.2-7

Mijke Rhemtulla

Contributor · added in 0.2-7

Jason D. Rights

Contributor

Alexander Robitzsch

Contributor · added in 0.2-7

Mikko Rönkkö

Contributor · added in 0.5-4

James Selig

Contributor · added in 0.2-7

Leonard Vanbrabant

Contributor · added in 0.5-7

Listed in earlier versions (8)

Alexander Schoemann

no longer listed · 2.15.1 to 0.5-1

Mauricio Villarreal

no longer listed · 0.2-7 to 3.0.1

Ruber Arslan

no longer listed · 0.2-11 to 0.5-2

Terry Jorgensen

no longer listed · 0.4-6 to 0.4-13

Jason Rights

no longer listed · 0.4-11 to 0.4-14

Jorgensen

no longer listed · 0.4-14 to 0.5-9

Rights

no longer listed · 0.5-0 to 0.5-9

Schoemann

no longer listed · 0.5-2 to 0.5-9

Package Timeline

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

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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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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 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03
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R 3.2.0 released · 2015-04-16
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R 3.0.0 released · 2013-04-03
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2.15.1
2012-05-17
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R 2.15.0 released · 2012-03-30

Package metadata

First published: 2012-05-18
Total releases: 31 / 14 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Minimum R: ≥ 4.0
Bundled data: 796 KB / 5 files
Download size: 1.4 MB
Installed size: not tracked yet
With dependencies: not tracked yet

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Missing Data Psychometric Models and Methods

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Jorgensen, T. D., Arslan, R., Ben-Shachar, M. S., Boulton, A., Byrnes, J., Chesnut, S., Clinton, B., Coffman, D., Enders, C., Garnier-Villarreal, M., Johnson, A. R., Longo, Y., Mansolf, M., Merkle, E., Miller, P., Panko, P., Pornprasertmanit, S., Preacher, K., Quick, C., Rhemtulla, M., Rights, J. D., Robitzsch, A., Rosseel, Y., Rönkkö, M., Schoemann, A. M., Selig, J., & Vanbrabant, L. (2026). semTools: Useful Tools for Structural Equation Modeling (Version 0.5-9) [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.32614/CRAN.package.semTools

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Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for semTools version 0.5-9 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-08-18. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

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