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I don't know about R yet. Where can I learn?

  • This might help, especially if you already know some other stats package. .
  • Also, this site gives google results for R: often handy.
  • This Style guide might help in reading and writing code.

How do install R?

OpenMx install, getting started

How do I cite OpenMx?

We ask that use the following two citations in your publications that use OpenMx. As of OpenMx 1.2.1, these citations are available from R by invoking citation("OpenMx").

   Steven M. Boker, Michael C. Neale, Hermine H. Maes, Michael J. Wilde,
   Michael Spiegel, Timothy R. Brick, Jeffrey Spies, Ryne Estabrook,
   Sarah Kenny, Timothy C. Bates, Paras Mehta, and John Fox. (2011)
   OpenMx: An Open Source Extended Structural Equation Modeling
   Framework. Psychometrika.

   Steven M. Boker, Michael C. Neale, Hermine H. Maes, Michael J. Wilde,
   Michael Spiegel, Timothy R. Brick, Ryne Estabrook, Timothy C. Bates,
   Paras Mehta, Timo von Oertzen, Ross J. Gore, Michael D. Hunter,
   Daniel C. Hackett, Julian Karch and Andreas Brandmaier. (2012) OpenMx
   1.2 User Guide.

The journal citation is for the OpenMx anchor paper. It serves as an introduction to OpenMx and helps track the usage of the software package in scholarly publications. The User Guide citation communicates which version of OpenMx you are using in your analysis and the author list of the User Guide reflects the nature of the development group that changes over time.

How do I load the newest version of OpenMx?

If you download a new version of the package, or compile a new from from the svn, you should quit R and restart to ensure you have the new version loaded

How do I get a copy of OpenMx to install on USB stick?

  1. Download the appropriate binary package.

  2. OS X
  3. Windows
  4. Save it in your USB drive

  5. Use the following command to install it, e.g.,
install.packages(pkgs="e:/OpenMx_1.0.1-1464.zip", repos=NULL)

nb: In Windows, the disk drive is represented by either e:/ or e:\ in R.

Where are the example scripts and demo data files?

You can view the list of demo files with this command:

 demo(package='OpenMx')

Then this will show you where they are on your system

system.file("demo", "BivariateSaturated_PathCov.R", package="OpenMx")

        [1] "/Users/~/Library/R/2.9/library/OpenMx/demo/BivariateSaturated_PathCov.R"

(you need to add ".R" to the displayed name that demo() reveals)

OpenMx library concepts

What is a named entity?

A named entity is the term used by the OpenMx library for any S4 object that includes the slot "name". Examples of S4 classes in the OpenMx library that create named entities include MxModel, MxMatrix, MxAlgebra, MxObjectiveFunction, and MxData. An equivalent answer to this question would be any S4 object 'foo' such that 'foo@name' will return a value.

SEM

I don't know about Structural equation modeling yet. Where can I learn?

OpenMx for Mx users

Is there a tutorial to help me transition?

OpenMx for mx 1.x usersView

OpenMx for MPlus users

Is there a tutorial to help me transition?

OpenMx for Mplus UsersView

OpenMx for Amos users

Is there a tutorial to help me transition?

OpenMx for Amos UsersView

OpenMx: help with scripting

My script isn't running

Have a look at our common errors list

How do I access help for the summary() function on a model object?

If model refers to a MxModel object, then use "?summary(model)" or the more generic "method ? summary('MxModel')". Documentation for the summary function was added in version 0.2.5.

Syntax writing

I use TextMate: is there a syntax bundle?

Yes, there is. You can install it using Getbundles

OpenMx and 64-bit Windows

Is there a version of OpenMx I can install on my 64-bit Windows machine?

Unfortunately, currently there is not a version of OpenMx that can be installed on a 64-bit windows machine. This is because we don't have a copy of 64-bit NPSOL library compiled for windows. We are working on getting this issue resolved and will provide a Windows 64-bit installation of OpenMx when possible.