R: Export 'mids' object to Mplus

mids2mplus {mice} | R Documentation

## Export `mids` object to Mplus

### Description

Converts a `mids` object into a format recognized by Mplus, and writes the data and the Mplus input files

### Usage

    mids2mplus(
      imp,
      file.prefix = "imp",
      path = getwd(),
      sep = "\t",
      dec = ".",
      silent = FALSE
    )

### Arguments

`imp` | The `imp` argument is an object of class `mids`, typically produced by the `mice()` function.
`file.prefix` | A character string describing the prefix of the output data files.
`path` | A character string containing the path of the output file. By default, files are written to the current `R` working directory.
`sep` | The separator between the data fields.
`dec` | The decimal separator for numerical data.
`silent` | A logical flag stating whether the names of the files should be printed.

### Details

This function automates most of the work needed to export a `mids` object to `Mplus`. The function writes the multiple imputation datasets, the file that contains the names of the multiple imputation data sets and an `Mplus` input file. The `Mplus` input file has the proper file names, so in principle it should run and read the data without alteration. `Mplus` will recognize the data set as a multiply imputed data set, and do automatic pooling in procedures where that is supported.

### Value

The return value is `NULL`.

### Author(s)

Gerko Vink, 2011.

### See Also

`mids`, `mids2spss`

[Package mice version 3.13.0 Index]