How to install BigSEM?

BigSEM can be used either locally as an R ~~package~~packages or online using our web app.

R Package

~~Our~~We have two R ~~package BigSEM is~~packages in the development stage ~~and~~that can now be installed from GitHub. We plan to upload the packages to CRAN before the end of December, 2024. The R package networksem can be used for SEM network analysis and the package TextSEM can be used for text analysis.

library(devtools)## Install the package for network analysis
remotes::install_github("iasnobmatsu/BigSEM"networksem")

## Install the package for text analysis
remotes::install_github("Stan7s/TextSEM")

Web App

To use our web app, go to the website at https://bigsem.org/app. Note that you will be prompted to log in as a user. If you don't have an account, you can register one for free.

Once logging in our web app, one can create a project and start to conduct the analysis. Note that we manage projects as files. One can upload, create, and delete files within the app.