The development of the R packages

The Development of the networksem Package

The package networksem includes various functions to analyze network data in the SEM framework. networksem is an open-source R package and welcomes contribution. It can be found at this github repository. 

networksem has two major components. 

• Functions started with sem.net: These are functions used to convert network data into SEM compatible formats and then embed those data in lavaan-based SEM analyses. 
• Other functions: functions such as summary() and path.networksem() calculates values of interest such as mediation effect post-hoc.