Package: fad
Type: Package
Title: Factor Analysis for Data
Version: 0.9-3
Date: 2025-08-26
Authors@R: c(
    person("Somak", "Dutta", , "somakd@iastate.edu", c("aut", "cre")),
    person("Fan", "Dai", , "fd43@iastate.edu", "aut"),
    person("Ranjan", "Maitra", , "maitra@iastate.edu", "ctb")
    )
Maintainer: Somak Dutta <somakd@iastate.edu>
Description: Compute maximum likelihood estimators of parameters in a
        Gaussian factor model using the the matrix-free methodology
        described in Dai et al. (2020)
        <doi:10.1080/10618600.2019.1704296>. In contrast to the
        factanal() function from 'stats' package, fad() can handle
        high-dimensional datasets where number of variables exceed the
        sample size and is also substantially faster than the EM
        algorithms.
License: GPL-3
URL: https://github.com/somakd/fad
BugReports: https://github.com/somakd/fad/issues
Encoding: UTF-8
Depends: R (>= 3.0.2), methods, RSpectra (>= 0.16-1)
Imports: Matrix (>= 1.1-0), Rcpp (>= 0.11.5)
LinkingTo: Rcpp, RSpectra, RcppEigen
NeedsCompilation: yes
Suggests: knitr, GPArotation
VignetteBuilder: knitr
RoxygenNote: 7.3.2
Repository: https://somakd.r-universe.dev
Date/Publication: 2025-08-26 23:39:27 UTC
RemoteUrl: https://github.com/somakd/fad
RemoteRef: HEAD
RemoteSha: 71e91cafc0628f5b6fe8510315c4972751aecd80
Packaged: 2026-06-22 09:29:17 UTC; root
Author: Somak Dutta [aut, cre],
  Fan Dai [aut],
  Ranjan Maitra [ctb]