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lavaan is implemented as an R package. This means that before installing lavaan, you should have installed a recent version (>= 4.0.0) of R. You can download the latest version of R from the R-project website.
Once you have installed R, you can install the lavaan package simply by starting up R, and typing
install.packages("lavaan", dependencies = TRUE)
To check if the installation was succesful, you can load the lavaan package and try one of the examples. For example:
library(lavaan)
example(cfa)
If you can see the output, everything is set up and ready.
Now that you have installed lavaan, you can:
- read the lavaan tutorial; either online or as a PDF
- read the lavaan paper
- have a look at the teaching materials, code examples and more at the Resources page.