mids2mplus.Rd

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\name{mids2mplus}
\alias{mids2mplus}
\title{Export \code{mids} object to Mplus}
\usage{
mids2mplus(
  imp,
  file.prefix = "imp",
  path = getwd(),
  sep = "\\t",
  dec = ".",
  silent = FALSE
)
}
\arguments{
\item{imp}{The \code{imp} argument is an object of class \code{mids},
typically produced by the \code{mice()} function.}

\item{file.prefix}{A character string describing the prefix of the output
data files.}

\item{path}{A character string containing the path of the output file.  By
default, files are written to the current \code{R} working directory.}

\item{sep}{The separator between the data fields.}

\item{dec}{The decimal separator for numerical data.}

\item{silent}{A logical flag stating whether the names of the files should be
printed.}
}
\value{
The return value is \code{NULL}.
}
\description{
Converts a \code{mids} object into a format recognized by Mplus, and writes
the data and the Mplus input files
}
\details{
This function automates most of the work needed to export a \code{mids}
object to \code{Mplus}. The function writes the multiple imputation datasets,
the file that contains the names of the multiple imputation data sets and an
\code{Mplus} input file. The \code{Mplus} input file has the proper file
names, so in principle it should run and read the data without alteration.
\code{Mplus} will recognize the data set as a multiply imputed data set, and
do automatic pooling in procedures where that is supported.
}
\seealso{
\code{\link[=mids-class]{mids}}, \code{\link{mids2spss}}
}
\author{
Gerko Vink, 2011.
}
\keyword{manip}