Appendix A: A brief introduction to R, OpenMx, and metaSEM packages
Mike W.‐L. Cheung · 2015
A brief introduction to R, OpenMx, and metaSEM packagesThis appendix provides a short introduction to the R statistical environment (R Development Core Team, 2014), the OpenMx package (Boker et al., 2011), and the metaSEM package (Cheung, 2014).R is a statistical environment for data manipulation, calculations, and graphical display.It provides a complete system for statistical analyses and statistical programming.Many state-of-the-art statistical techniques have been implemented in R via packages.Readers can easily download and apply these techniques.If you are not familiar with R, you may get it started by reading some books in R, for example, Adler (2010), Dalgaard (2008), andZuur et al. (2009).