0.9), shinyalert (>= 2.0), data.table (>= 1.13), colourpicker

Title: Functions to Minimize Bonehead Moves While Working with 'shiny'
Description: It's my experience that working with 'shiny' is intuitive once you're
into it, but can be quite daunting at first. Several common mistakes are fairly
predictable, and therefore we can control for these. The functions in this
package help match up the assets listed in the UI and the SERVER files, and
Visualize the ad hoc structure of the 'shiny' App.
Imports: dplyr, purrr, readr, stringr, tidyr, visNetwork

Authors@R: c(person("Walter", "Leite", email = "Walter.Leite@coe.ufl.edu", role = "aut"), person("Anthony", "Raborn", email = "anthony.w.raborn@gmail.com", role = c("aut", "cre")))
Description: Performs automatic creation of short forms of scales with an
ant colony optimization algorithm. As implemented in the package,
the algorithm randomly selects items to build a model of a specified length,
then updates the probability of item selection according to the fit of
the best model within each set of searches. The algorithm continues until
the same items are selected by multiple ants a given number of times in a row.
License: LGPL (>= 2.0, < 3) | Mozilla Public License
Imports: lavaan (>= 0.5-22), MplusAutomation (>= 0.7)

ant colony optimization algorithm and a Tabu search. As implemented in the
package, the ant colony algorithm randomly selects items to build a model of
a specified length, then updates the probability of item selection according
to the fit of the best model within each set of searches. The algorithm
continues until the same items are selected by multiple ants a given number
of times in a row. On the other hand, the Tabu search changes one parameter at
a time to be either free, constrained, or fixed while keeping track of the
changes made and putting changes that result in worse fit in a "tabu" list
so that the algorithm does not revisit them for some number of searches.
an applied example of the ant colony algorithm, and Marcoulides & Falk (2018)
<doi:10.1080/10705511.2017.1409074> for an applied example of the Tabu search.