semPLS (version 1.0-3)

plsm2sem: Convert Model for Use in sem

Description

Converts a plsm object to an object of class mod for usage of sem method within sem package.

Usage

plsm2sem(model, ...)
## S3 method for class 'plsm':
plsm2sem(model, file=stdout(), fixedVarMV=TRUE, fixedVarLV=TRUE,
          fixedLoad=character(), ...)

Arguments

model

An object of class splsm as returned by the method read.splsm.

...

Arguments to pass down.

file

A character naming the file to write to. If no file argument is specified, splsm2sem writes to stdout.

fixedVarMV

A logical indicating whether the variances of the MVs should be fixed to one. The default is TRUE.

fixedVarLV

A logical indicating whether the variances of the LVs should be fixed to one. The default is TRUE.

fixedLoad

A character vector naming the MVs, for which the outer loading should be fixed to one.

Value

• If the sem package is available, an object of class mod (see specify.model) is returned, else a text representation of recticular action model (RAM) is written.

See Also

specify.model

Examples

data(ECSImobi)
if(require(sem)){
   ECSIsem <- plsm2sem(ECSImobi)
   ECSIsem
}