Use this tag for questions regarding the R Structural equation modelling package OpenMx.
Questions tagged [openmx]
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Intruments Call Tree broken mix of R, C++ and Fortran
I am trying to profile a function of OpenMx, an R package containing C++ and Fortran code, for CPU time. My operating system is OS X 10.10. I have read the section regarding this topic in the R manual. This section and this post lead me to try…

Julian Karch
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Converting a vector to full matrix in OpenMx
I computed the vectorized form of an implied variance-covariance matrix using mxAlgebra in OpenMx. Now, I need to reconstruct this to a matrix in order to run the model. OpenMx has the function vech2full which does what I want for half-vectorized…

Sacha Epskamp
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cannot install package OpenMx in R
I'm running R version 3.5 on a mac.
When I try to install OpenMx by
install.packages("OpenMx")
it eventually fails after a bunch of warning messages.
At first the warning message was
xcrun: error: invalid active developer path…

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How do I update scripts from OpenMx 1 to OpenMx 2?
I have an example OpenMx script written a few years ago to do twin modelling.
It was written for OpenMx version 1.0 (script linked here )
When I run it, there are some warnings about updating fit functions and objectives. How should I update it to…

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Time Invariant Predictor of Slope and Intercept in Latent Growth Curve Model in OpenMx
I'm trying to figure out how to properly add a predictor of the slope and intercept in a latent growth curve model in the OpenMx package for R.
I would like to predict the slope and intercept from, say, gender in a very simple growth curve model.…

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semPlot won't install in R/Rstudio on MacOS 11.4 because OpenMx won't install & it's a dependency
I'm running R 3.6.1 in an Anaconda environment (it won't let me upgrade to v4) and trying to install semPlot to accompany lavaan which installed fine. Here are the packages I've installed:
library(psych) # for Chronbach's alpha…

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compile linux program (OpenMX) for windows with MinGw platform and libraries such as MPICH,fftw lapack and BLAS?
The openMX code (http://www.openmx-square.org/download.html) is a software package for nano-scale material simulations based on density functional theories. it has a make file which contains C and fortran compiler executable, libraries and include…

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Installing OpenMx package in R on Ubuntu 18.04LTS
I get the following error when trying to install (install.packages("OpenMx")) OpenMx in R on Ubuntu 18.04. I am not familiar with compiling C code, so I ask that you "dumb it down" for me a bit.
Installing package into…

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In OpenMx 2, what does Error: no slot of name "objective" for this object of class "MxRAMModel" mean?
In OpenMx 1, we could access the objective with
model@objective
In OpenMx 2, this slot is missing (as the objective now distinguishes explicitly between the expectation and the fit function). So, I guess we should be accessing the objective with…

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