OpenMx 1.2.4 is released

The latest version of OpenMx 1.2 is available for download. OpenMx 1.2.4 contains several fixes which are described below. For more information on the general features within the OpenMx 1.2 series, see here. Use the installation command in an R terminal source('https://openmx.ssri.psu.edu/getOpenMx.R') to install OpenMx 1.2.4.

OpenMx 1.2.3 is released

The latest version of OpenMx 1.2 is available for download. OpenMx 1.2.3 contains several bug fixes which are described below. For more information on the general features within the OpenMx 1.2 series, see here. Use the installation command in an R terminal source('https://openmx.ssri.psu.edu/getOpenMx.R') to install OpenMx 1.2.3.

Add option to change name of a model when you omxSetParameters it

Usually, one uses omxSetParameters() to change something about a model - say fix or free parameters, so that the revised model can be fitted and compared. It would be useful to be able to change the name at that point. The attached patch modifies omxSetParameters() to add at the end of the arglist newname = NULL and if the newname is not NULL it changes the model name.

OpenMx 1.2 is released

The release of OpenMx 1.2 is available for download. Use the installation command in an R terminal source('https://openmx.ssri.psu.edu/getOpenMx.R'). OpenMx 1.2 is the result of nearly 6 months of development and much feedback from the user community. The two primary feature enhancements to the 1.2 series are the addition of the 'connect' argument to mxPath and full information maximum likelihood (FIML) is now multi-threaded by default in OpenMx.

OpenMx 1.2 beta released

The beta release of the OpenMx 1.2 series is available for download. Use the alternate installation command in an R terminal source("https://openmx.ssri.psu.edu/getNewOpenMx.R"). The new series of OpenMx is the result of nearly 6 months of development and much feedback from the user community. In our development cycle a beta-release indicates that each new feature has been tested with some type of validation script in our test repository. However we need to broader community to shake out any final bugs before moving to the OpenMx 1.2.0 release.