circumplex: Analysis and Visualization of Circular Data

Circumplex models, which organize constructs in a circle around two underlying dimensions, are popular for studying interpersonal functioning, mood/affect, and vocational preferences/environments. This package provides tools for analyzing and visualizing circular data, including scoring functions for relevant instruments and a generalization of the bootstrapped structural summary method from Zimmermann & Wright (2017) <doi:10.1177/1073191115621795> and functions for creating publication-ready tables and figures from the results.

Version: 2.0.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.1)
Imports: boot (≥ 1.3-18), ggplot2 (≥ 4.0.0), grid, htmlTable (≥ 1.13.3), parallel, Rcpp, rlang, stats
LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppArmadillo (≥ 0.11)
Suggests: brms, covr (≥ 3.5.0), ggrepel, glmmTMB, kableExtra (≥ 1.1.0), knitr (≥ 1.28), lavaan, OpenMx, psych, RColorBrewer, rmarkdown (≥ 2.1), roxygen2 (≥ 7.1.0), testthat (≥ 3.0.0), vdiffr
Published: 2026-09-02
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.circumplex
Author: Jeffrey Girard ORCID iD [aut, cre], Johannes Zimmermann ORCID iD [aut], Aidan Wright ORCID iD [aut]
Maintainer: Jeffrey Girard <me at jmgirard.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/jmgirard/circumplex/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://github.com/jmgirard/circumplex, http://circumplex.jmgirard.com/
NeedsCompilation: yes
Materials: NEWS
CRAN checks: circumplex results

Documentation:

Reference manual: circumplex.html , circumplex.pdf
Vignettes: Advanced Circumplex Visualization (source)
Axes Reliability (source)
Bayesian SSM Analysis (source, R code)
Evaluating Circumplex Structure (source)
Growth Models on SSM Parameters (source)
Intermediate SSM Analysis (source)
Introduction to SSM Analysis (source)
SEM-Based SSM Analysis (source)
Using Circumplex Instruments (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: circumplex_2.0.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: circumplex_1.2.0.zip, r-release: circumplex_1.2.0.zip, r-oldrel: circumplex_2.0.0.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): circumplex_2.0.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): circumplex_2.0.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): circumplex_1.2.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): circumplex_1.2.0.tgz
Old sources: circumplex archive

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