lavaan (version 0.6-16)

mplus2lavaan: mplus to lavaan converter

Description

Read in an Mplus input file, convert it to lavaan syntax, and fit the model.

Usage

mplus2lavaan(inpfile, run = TRUE)

Value

A lavaan object with the fitted results of the Mplus model. The parsed and converted Mplus syntax is preserved in the @external slot of the lavaan

object in the $mplus.inp element. If run is FALSE, a list of converted syntax is returned.

Arguments

inpfile

The filename (including a full path) of the Mplus input file. The data (as referred to in the Mplus input file) should be in the same directory as the Mplus input file.

run

Whether to run the specified Mplus input syntax (TRUE) or only to parse and convert the syntax (FALSE).

Author

Michael Hallquist

See Also

lavExport

Examples

if (FALSE) {
out <- mplus2lavaan("ex5.1.inp")
summary(out)
}