test_that("Political Democracy works", { set.seed(123) library(lavaan) library(mxsem) model <- ' # latent variable definitions ind60 =~ x1 + x2 + x3 dem60 =~ y1 + a*y2 + b*y3 + c*y4 dem65 =~ y5 + a*y6 + b*y7 + c*y8 # regressions dem60 ~ ind60 dem65 ~ ind60 + dem60 # residual correlations y1 ~~ y5 y2 ~~ y4 + y6 y3 ~~ y7 y4 ~~ y8 y6 ~~ y8 ' fit_lavaan <- sem(model, data = PoliticalDemocracy) fit_mxsem <- mxsem(model, data = PoliticalDemocracy) |> mxTryHard() testthat::expect_true(abs(-2*logLik(fit_lavaan) - fit_mxsem$fitfunction$result[[1]]) < 1e-2) })