Package: ackwards
Title: Bass-Ackwards Hierarchical Structural Analysis
Version: 0.2.0
Authors@R: c(
    person("Jeffrey M.", "Girard", , "me@jmgirard.com", role = c("aut", "cre"),
           comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-7359-3746")),
    person("Miriam K.", "Forbes", role = "cph",
           comment = "Author of the bundled AMH correlation matrix (data/forbes2023.rda), CC-BY 4.0"))
Description: Implements Goldberg's (2006) <doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2006.01.001>
    bass-ackwards method and modern descendants for hierarchical structural
    analysis. Extracts solutions from 1 to k factors using principal
    component analysis (PCA), exploratory factor analysis (EFA), or
    exploratory structural equation modeling (ESEM) engines, then
    characterizes the hierarchy via between-level factor-score
    correlations computed via exact linear algebra (Waller, 2007,
    <doi:10.1016/j.jrp.2006.08.005>) or materialized scores. Includes the
    Forbes (2023) <doi:10.1037/met0000546> extension for redundancy pruning
    and all-levels cross-correlations.
License: MIT + file LICENSE
Encoding: UTF-8
Depends: R (>= 4.1.0)
Imports: cli, generics, psych, rlang, stats, utils
Suggests: covr, EFAtools, future, future.apply, ggplot2, gt, knitr,
        lavaan (>= 0.6-13), rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.0.0)
LazyData: true
Config/testthat/edition: 3
Config/testthat/parallel: true
Config/testthat/start-first: suggest_k, boot_edges, esem, layout,
        missing, vignette-m24
VignetteBuilder: knitr
URL: https://jmgirard.github.io/ackwards/,
        https://github.com/jmgirard/ackwards
BugReports: https://github.com/jmgirard/ackwards/issues
Config/roxygen2/version: 8.0.0
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2026-07-27 18:05:34 UTC; jmgirard
Author: Jeffrey M. Girard [aut, cre] (ORCID:
    <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7359-3746>),
  Miriam K. Forbes [cph] (Author of the bundled AMH correlation matrix
    (data/forbes2023.rda), CC-BY 4.0)
Maintainer: Jeffrey M. Girard <me@jmgirard.com>
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2026-07-27 19:30:22 UTC
Built: R 4.5.3; ; 2026-07-28 12:25:29 UTC; windows
