psychnets: Tidy Clean-Room Psychological Network Modeling

Provides clean-room implementations for estimating psychometric network models, including correlation and partial-correlation networks, Gaussian graphical models with extended Bayesian information criterion (EBIC) regularization, nonparanormal and stepwise selection variants, information-filtering networks (the triangulated maximally filtered graph and the local-global inverse covariance), relative-importance networks, and Ising and mixed graphical models <doi:10.3758/s13428-017-0862-1> <doi:10.1007/978-3-031-54464-4_19>. All methods are implemented from first principles in base R without compiled dependencies and return consistent, tidy outputs. Functions are designed to be transparent and report optimization diagnostics where applicable. For Gaussian graphical models, the graphical lasso stationarity (Karush-Kuhn-Tucker) residual quantifies the deviation of the estimated solution from the optimum of the corresponding convex optimization problem.

Version: 0.4.3
Depends: R (≥ 3.5.0)
Imports: grDevices, graphics, parallel, stats
Suggests: cocor, cograph, glasso, glmnet, igraph, IsingFit, knitr, mgm, mvtnorm, networktools, psych, qgraph, rmarkdown, testthat (≥ 3.0.0), tna
Published: 2026-07-30
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.psychnets (may not be active yet)
Author: Mohammed Saqr [aut, cre, cph], Sonsoles López-Pernas [aut]
Maintainer: Mohammed Saqr <saqr at saqr.me>
BugReports: https://github.com/mohsaqr/psychnets/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://pak.dynasite.org/psychnets, https://github.com/mohsaqr/psychnets
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: psychnets results

Documentation:

Reference manual: psychnets.html , psychnets.pdf
Vignettes: Gaussian graphical models: estimation and interpretation (source, R code)
Stepwise Gaussian graphical model selection (source, R code)
Regulation networks from Dynalytics event data (source, R code)
Information-filtering networks with TMFG and LoGo (source, R code)
Ising networks for binary data (source, R code)
Mixed graphical models (source, R code)
Relative-importance networks (source, R code)
Visualizing networks with cograph (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: psychnets_0.4.3.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: psychnets_0.4.3.zip, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: psychnets_0.4.3.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): psychnets_0.4.3.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): psychnets_0.4.3.tgz, r-release (x86_64): psychnets_0.4.3.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): psychnets_0.4.3.tgz

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