umx: Structural Equation Modeling and Twin Modeling in R

Quickly create, run, and report structural equation and twin models. See '?umx' for help, and umx_open_CRAN_page("umx") for NEWS. Citations are: * Timothy C. Bates, Michael C. Neale, Hermine H. Maes, (2019). umx: A library for Structural Equation and Twin Modelling in R. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 22, 27-41. <doi:10.1017/thg.2019.2>. * Luis F.S. Castro-de-Araujo, Nathan A. Gillespie, Michael C. Neale, and Timothy Charles Bates (2026). umx version 4.5: Extending Twin and Path-Based SEM in R with CLPM, MR-DoC, Definition Variables, Onyx Integration, and Censored Distributions. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 1-6. <doi:10.1017/thg.2026.10056>.

Version: 4.80.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0), OpenMx (≥ 2.20.0)
Imports: cowplot, DiagrammeR, gert, ggplot2, kableExtra, knitr, lavaan, MASS, Matrix, methods, MuMIn, mvtnorm, nlme, openxlsx, paran, polycor, quantmod, R2HTML, RCurl, scales, utils, xtable, zoo
Suggests: remotes, devtools, pak, spelling, testthat, withr, R.utils, data.table, car, cocor, GPArotation, httr2, parallel, psychTools, psych, pwr, piggyback, rmarkdown, rhub, ssh
Enhances: DiagrammeRsvg, rsvg
Published: 2026-10-11
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.umx
Author: Timothy C. Bates ORCID iD [aut, cre], Luis De Araujo [ctb], Nathan Gillespie [wit], Hermine Maes [ctb], Michael C. Neale [ctb], Joshua N. Pritikin [ctb], Brenton Wiernik [ctb], Michael Zakharin [wit]
Maintainer: Timothy C. Bates <timothy.c.bates at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/tbates/umx/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://github.com/tbates/umx#readme
NeedsCompilation: no
Language: en-US
Citation: umx citation info
Materials: README, NEWS, INSTALL
CRAN checks: umx results [issues need fixing before 2026-11-01]

Documentation:

Reference manual: umx.html , umx.pdf
Vignettes: Uncertainty in SEM (source, R code)
Weighted Least Squares (WLS) in umx (source, R code)
Understanding Fit Indices in OpenMx and umx: Browne, Satorra-Bentler, and Savalei (source)
Modification Indices in umx (source, R code)
Getting Started with umx (source, R code)
Genomic SEM in umx (umxGSEM) (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: umx_4.80.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: umx_4.65.0.zip, r-release: umx_4.65.0.zip, r-oldrel: umx_4.65.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): umx_4.80.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): umx_4.80.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): umx_4.80.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): umx_4.80.0.tgz
Old sources: umx archive

Reverse dependencies:

Reverse suggests: semPlot, tidySEM

Linking:

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