[R] Re: S+ code

[Peter Malewski]

Dear Mr. Cleland, SEM-ueser, R-User, ...

    there isn't s-plus or R (a GNU-free version of the programming language
S) code for structural equation modelling. I always wondered why. I
personally think the language S, with the implementations S+ and R, is a
good-perhaps the best-environment for statistical analyses. Why? It is
object orientated, logical, etc. For example: the code for least squares
regression is: lm(y~x). And isn’t it a waste of time to learn for a new
analyses a new programming language?

Several month ago I thought about including structural eq. modelling  in
R---either by writing an interface to the MX-Language (which unfortunately
isn’t under the GNU-licence but nearly “free”) or built it up from scratch.
I haven’t because I haven’t got time and ...

Surely I the philosophies of the people who use S and SEM-Models are
different. Personally I think that this is the main reason why there isn’t
code for SEM for S. Perhaps one of the R-users might explain why there SEM
should not be included in R...

Greetings from an R but not yet SEM user (perhaps never)

P.Malewski

ps. Sorry for the bad Engish...


Chuck Cleland wrote:

> Boechler, Mike wrote:
> >
> > Good day,
> > Is anyone aware of any objects written in S+ that allow one to fit
> > structural equation models (latent variable and otherwise)? Thanks in
> > advance.
> > Mike
>
>   I am not aware of any libraries or functions, but you might try
> posting the question on the S-Plus list.
>
> s-news at wubios.wustl.edu
>
>   Also check the S-Plus archives for available libraries and functions.
>
> UNIX
>
> http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/S/
>
> AND Windows
>
> http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/DOS/S/
>
> Chuck Cleland

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