semTools 0.5-8 on its way to CRAN

[Terrence Jorgensen]

Besides some bug fixes and finally saying goodbye to some long-deprecated functions, the biggest updates in the latest semTools are:

• a(nother) rewrite of the compRelSEM() function, with major changes to the interface that were necessitated to enable users to provide custom weights for weighted composites.
• enhancing miPowerFit(), which has been renamed to epcEquivFit(), thanks to original semTools maintainer Sunthud Pornprasertmanit's fantastic return to full-time academic life!

Details about both are already available in our NEWS file on CRAN: 

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/semTools/news/news.html

Also see their corresponding documentation in the package.  I'll provide some more detail about the compRelSEM() changes in response to a feature-request posted here last year.

Best,

Terrence D. Jorgensen    (he, him, his)
Assistant Professor, Methods and Statistics
Research Institute for Child Development and Education, the University of Amsterdam
http://www.uva.nl/profile/t.d.jorgensen