Changelog • semptools

semptools 0.2.9.10

Added support for 2nd order factor (see vignette("second_order")). (0.2.9.7)
Fixed doc due to Roxygen updated to 7.2.1. (0.2.9.7)
Update the GitHub actions. (0.2.9.8)
Fixed doc due to Roxygen updated to 7.2.3. (0.2.9.9)
Fixed set_curve(). It should now work for bidirectional edges regardless of the order of the nodes in the specification. (0.2.9.9)

CRAN release: 2022-08-25

Updated drop_nodes(): It now works with output without a covariance matrix (e.g, a model generated from lavaan::lavaanify() without data).

CRAN release: 2021-10-11

CRAN release: 2021-09-27

Fixed a bug in set_sem_layout(). Failed to work with models in which all factors have the same number of indicators.

Reformatted the help sections of the functions (wrap the text for readability). This has no impact on uses and the generated help files.

Added drop_nodes() and keep_nodes(). They process a semPlotModel object, which is generated by semPlot::semPlotModel(), drop or keep selected nodes (e.g., observed variables, latent factors) from the object. The result can then be passed to semPlot::semPaths() to draw a diagram without the dropped nodes.
Add layout_matrix. A helper function for creating a layout matrix to be used by semPlot::semPaths(). Users specify the positions of nodes and the function will create the matrix accordingly.
mark_sig(), mark_se(), and set_cfa_layout() will raise an error if the semPlot::semPaths object has intercepts terms. These function do not support plots with intercept terms yet.
Updated change_node_label() to support named vectors.
Added vignette("layout_matrix") to explain how layout matrix is used in semPlot::semPaths(), and how layout_matrix() can be used to construct the layout matrix.
Updated the vignettes to use named vectors instead of “list of named lists” in some functions.
Updated vignette("semptools") to introduce change_node_label().
magrittr is no longer required for installing the package.

Added change_node_label() for changing the labels of nodes. Several other functions were modified to adapt for this function.
Added to_list_of_lists() for converting a named vector to a list of lists. Specifying a list of lists is necessary in some cases because the a label may not be string (e.g., it may be an expression). However, in most cases, all elements are strings or numbers and so a named vector will do. This function is to be used internally by other functions, not to be used by users.

Fix a bug in set_cfa_layout(). It now will not raise an error for one-factor models.
Fix some typo errors in documentation pages.

Import the pipe operator from magrittr so users no need to load the package themselves.

Update the documentation of mark_sig() and mark_se() to emphasize that currently they require a lavaan output.