mplush5

A new feature of Mplus is the ability to have the results saved to an external (hdf5) file that can then be used in other statistical programs. An hdf5 file is a hierarchical data format that is able to store large amounts of data.

It is possible to read a hdf5 file directly into R (using the rhdf5 library) but it can be difficult to navigate around the file and find the desired results. Thuy Nguyen of Muthen & Muthen wrote a series of functions that make it easier to access the results of the hdf5 file. These functions were saved in two .R files that would need to be downloaded from the web and sourced in R before they could be used. This made it difficult to use these functions when collaborating with others.

The goal of mplush5 is to put these functions into a R package so that it becomes easier to use these functions in collaboration with others.

The original files can be found at https://www.statmodel.com/mplus-R/H5Results.zip.

Installation

You can install the development version of mplush5 from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("dougtommet/mplush5")

Example

This is a basic example which shows you how to solve a common problem:

library(mplush5)
## basic example code
# h5_path <- path_to_h5_file
# mplus.view.results(h5_path)
# mplus.print.model.results(h5_path)