as_ram: Convert lavaan syntax to RAM specification

In tidySEM: Tidy Structural Equation Modeling

Convert lavaan syntax to RAM specification

Description

Converts SEM models to RAM models for OpenMx.

Usage

as_ram(x, ...)

Arguments

x	An object for which a method exists, such as a tidy_sem object, or character vector describing the user-specified model using the lavaan model syntax.
...	Parameters passed on to other functions.

Details

For models specified using lavaan syntax, the procedure is as follows:

1. Apply lavaanify to the model. The default arguments to lavaanify correspond to those of the sem function.

2. Convert each row of the resulting lavaan parameter table to a mxPath.

3. Apply mxModel to the mxPaths to create an OpenMx model using RAM specification

Value

Returns an mxModel.

Examples

as_ram("y ~ x")

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