Factor analysis of categorical or mixed categorical/continuousdata in [R]

I am looking to fit one or more latent categorical variables to data that is
a mixture of categorical and continuous variables. Factor analysis would
work for continuous data, latent class analysis for categorical data. I
understand that in a package such as MPlus I could perform a single analysis
of both data types. Are there similar routines available in R?

Stuart

-----Original Message-----
From: Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk>
To: Dr Stuart Leask <stuart.leask at nottingham.ac.uk>
Cc: r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch <r-help at stat.math.ethz.ch>
Date: 21 February 2002 10:53
Subject: [R] Re: Factor analysis of categorical or mixed
categorical/continuousdata in [R]

On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Dr Stuart Leask wrote:

Are there any suitable routines that perform factor analysis of

categorical

or mixed categorical/continuous data in R?

In my reference books `factor analysis' is defined to be for continuous
data.  There are many latent variable techniques for categorical data with
many variants on each.  Which precisely did you have in mind?

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