plssem: Complex Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling
Estimate complex Structural Equation Models (SEMs) by fitting Partial Least Squares Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) and Partial Least Squares consistent Structural Equation Modeling (PLSc-SEM) specifications that handle categorical data, non-linear relations, and multilevel structures. The implementation follows Lohmöller (1989) for the classic PLS-SEM algorithm, Dijkstra and Henseler (2015) for consistent PLSc-SEM, Dijkstra et al., (2014) for nonlinear PLSc-SEM, and Schuberth, Henseler, Dijkstra (2018) for ordinal PLS-SEM and PLSc-SEM. Additional extensions are under development. References: Lohmöller, J.-B. (1989, ISBN:9783790803002). "Latent Variable Path Modeling with Partial Least Squares." Dijkstra, T. K., & Henseler, J. (2015). <doi:10.1016/j.jmva.2015.06.002>. "Consistent partial least squares path modeling." Dijkstra, T. K., & Schermelleh-Engel, K. (2014). <doi:10.1016/j.csda.2014.07.008>. "Consistent partial least squares for nonlinear structural equation models." Schuberth, F., Henseler, J., & Dijkstra, T. K. (2018). <doi:10.1007/s11135-018-0767-9>. "Partial least squares path modeling using ordinal categorical indicators."
| Version: | 0.1.0 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.1.0) |
| Imports: | stats, modsem (≥ 1.0.17), lme4, lavaan, cli, stringr, purrr, matrixStats, SimDesign, Rfast, collapse, mvnfast, reformulas |
| Suggests: | knitr, rmarkdown |
| Published: | 2026-03-23 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.plssem (may not be active yet) |
| Author: | Kjell Solem Slupphaug
 [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Kjell Solem Slupphaug <slupphaugkjell at gmail.com> |
| License: | GPL-3 |
| URL: | https://github.com/kss2k/plssem |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Materials: | README |
| CRAN checks: | plssem results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | plssem.html , plssem.pdf |
| Vignettes: |
Categorical Models with plssem (source, R code) Interaction Models with plssem (source, R code) Linear Models with plssem (source, R code) Multilevel Models with plssem (source, R code) |
Downloads:
| Package source: | plssem_0.1.0.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): plssem_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): plssem_0.1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): plssem_0.1.0.tgz |
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