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The packagetidySEM provides a ‘tidy’ workflow for conducting,reporting, and plotting structural equation modeling analyses. It doesnot perform model estimation, but instead allows users to estimatemodels in a software-agnostic way, using either the free open source Rpackageslavaan orOpenMx, or the commercial closed-source programMplus (controlled through the R packageMplusAutomation). The aim oftidySEM is to provide three specific functions:

1. Generate model syntax in a top-down, tidy way,
   • With particular attention to specifying mixture models inOpenMx
2. Tabulate model output in a publication-ready, uniform manner,
3. Make easily customizable graphs for SEM-models.

These functions are designed with thetidy tools manifesto (Wickham,last updated23-11-2019) inmind, and interface with the existing suite of packages in thetidyverse.

You can install the public release oftidySEM from CRAN with:

install.packages("tidySEM")

If you want access to the latest developer version, including featuresthat may not yet be finalized, you can install the development versionoftidySEM from R-universe with:

install.packages('tidySEM',repos= c('https://cjvanlissa.r-universe.dev','https://cloud.r-project.org'))

And if you are a developer and want to contribute totidySEM, or wantto install a specific historical version of the package, you can installdirectly from GitHub with:

install.packages("remotes")remotes::install_github('cjvanlissa/tidySEM')

Every user-facing function in the package is documented, and thedocumentation can be accessed by running?function_name in the Rconsole, e.g.,?graph_sem.

Furthermore, there are three main vignettes, describing the three maintracks oftidySEM functions:

1. Avignette about generating syntax and estimatingmodels
2. Avignette about tabulatingresults
3. Avignette about makinggraphs
   • An additional vignette describes thegraphingconventionsfor structural equation models.

You can cite the R-package with the following citation:

Van Lissa, C. J., (2019).tidySEM: Tidy structural equationmodeling. R package version 0.2.1.https://github.com/cjvanlissa/tidySEM/

If you have ideas, please get involved. You can contribute by opening anissue on ‘GitHub’, or sending a pull request with proposed features (seefurther instructions below).

• File a ‘GitHub’ issuehere
• Make a pull requesthere

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