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symSEM

Symbolic Computation for Structural Equation Models

v0.4 · May 16, 2024 · GPL (>= 2)

Description

A collection of functions for symbolic computation using the 'caracas' package for structural equation models and other statistical analyses. Among its features is the ability to calculate the model-implied covariance (and correlation) matrix and the sampling covariance matrix of variable functions using the delta method.

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Check History

OK 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 9, 2026
ERROR 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Jun 8, 2026
ERROR r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

package dependencies

Package required but not available: ‘caracas’

See section ‘The DESCRIPTION file’ in the ‘Writing R Extensions’
manual.
OK 12 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Apr 25, 2026
ERROR 13 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 1 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026
ERROR r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

package dependencies

Packages required but not available: 'OpenMx', 'metaSEM'

See section 'The DESCRIPTION file' in the 'Writing R Extensions'
manual.

Code

Structure

Lines of code

924

Files

16

Compiled share

0%

Has compiled src

No

Language breakdown

R 600 (64.9%)Tests 48 (5.2%)Docs 276 (29.9%)

API

Exported functions

3

Internal functions

2

Recent export changes

v0.4+1 JacobianRAM
v0.2+2 deltamethod, impliedS  −1 pattern:^[^\\.]

Testing & CI

Has tests

Yes

Test-to-code ratio

0.08

testthat edition

CI present

No

CI type

[]

PR gated

No

Docs

Return-value doc rate

100%

\dontrun example ratio

100%

Roxygen coverage

100%

Has pkgdown

No

NEWS present

Yes

Health & Security signals

Informational signals; not verdicts.

on.exit coverage

Unsafe pattern score

0

Dep constraint coverage

0%

Secret pattern count

0

Bundled 3rd-party code

2 items

Portability & License

Min R version

System requirements

1

C++ standard

License

GPL (>= 2)

License flags

SPDX valid, OSI approved

History

Versions

3

First release

2020-07-16

Latest release

2024-05-16

Avg cadence

700 days

Cold removal rate

100%

Dep drift

3

LOC over versions

v0.1: 585 LOCv0.2: 534 LOCv0.4: 924 LOC

Per-file churn detail lives in the source pipeline: https://github.com/r-observatory/cran-code-metrics.

Dependency Network

Dependencies Reverse dependencies caracas OpenMx metaSEM symSEM

Version History

4 tracked
new 0.4 Mar 10, 2026
updated 0.4 ← 0.2 diff May 15, 2024
updated 0.2 ← 0.1 diff May 30, 2023
new 0.1 Jul 15, 2020