plavaan: Penalized Estimation for Latent Variable Models with 'lavaan'

Extends the popular 'lavaan' package by adding penalized estimation capabilities. It supports penalty on individual parameters as well as the difference between parameters.

Version:	0.0.2
Depends:	R (≥ 3.5.0)
Imports:	lavaan (≥ 0.6-15), numDeriv
Suggests:	knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0)
Published:	2026-07-28
DOI:	10.32614/CRAN.package.plavaan
Author:	Hok Chio (Mark) Lai [aut, cre]
Maintainer:	Hok Chio (Mark) Lai <marklhc at gmail.com>
BugReports:	https://github.com/marklhc/plavaan/issues
License:	MIT + file LICENSE
URL:	https://marklhc.github.io/plavaan/, https://github.com/marklhc/plavaan
NeedsCompilation:	no
Materials:	README, NEWS
CRAN checks:	plavaan results

Documentation:

Reference manual:	plavaan.html , plavaan.pdf
Vignettes:	Approximate Invariance with Penalized Estimation (source, R code) Negative Loadings (source, R code) Penalized Estimation with Ordinal Data and Multiple Groups (source, R code) Penalized Estimation of Cross-Loadings and Unique Covariances (source, R code) Multistart Penalized Estimation (source, R code) Standard Errors (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source:	plavaan_0.0.2.tar.gz
Windows binaries:	r-devel: plavaan_0.0.1.zip, r-release: plavaan_0.0.1.zip, r-oldrel: plavaan_0.0.1.zip
macOS binaries:	r-release (arm64): plavaan_0.0.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): plavaan_0.0.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): plavaan_0.0.2.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): plavaan_0.0.2.tgz
Old sources:	plavaan archive

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