R Observatory: Metrics for EcoNetGen version 0.2.4

Balamuta, James Joseph

doi:10.5281/zenodo.21843040

EcoNetGen

0.2.4Package record

Simulate and Sample from Ecological Interaction Networks

0packages depend

3Kdownloads / year

93.4%test coverage

11/13flavors OK

Overview

About

Maintained by Carl BoettigerCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗Issues ↗Declared funder: NIMBioS

Randomly generate a wide range of interaction networks with specified size, average degree, modularity, and topological structure. Sample nodes and links from within simulated networks randomly, by degree, by module, or by abundance. Simulations and sampling routines are implemented in 'FORTRAN', providing efficient generation times even for large networks. Basic visualization methods also included. Algorithms implemented here are described in de Aguiar et al. (2017) arXiv:1708.01242.

Changes in 0.2.4

Removes stale references to fortran random_seed (package has used R's native random number generation for fortran since v0.2.0, but code continued to contain routine set set random_seed in the old fortran style. Thanks BDR for catching and reporting this.)

From NEWS.md in the release

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)Fedora (COPR)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("EcoNetGen", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("cboettig/EcoNetGen")

Development version from cboettig/EcoNetGen. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-econetgen

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled. We list this channel from recorded r2u download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# enable the iucar/cran COPR if it is not already present, then install
ls /etc/yum.repos.d/*iucar*cran*.repo >/dev/null 2>&1 \
  || sudo dnf copr enable -y iucar/cran
sudo dnf install -y R-CRAN-EcoNetGen

RPMs from the iucar/cran COPR, rebuilt from CRAN.

For install.packages() integration in R, also: sudo dnf install R-CoprManager

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-EcoNetGen

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed). We list this channel from recorded autoCRAN download activity rather than from a live index of the repository, so treat it as last known rather than guaranteed.

Health

CRAN checks

2NOTE11OK

Check messages

NOTECRAN incoming feasibilityr-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-clang, r-devel-linux-x86_64-debian-gcc

Maintainer: ‘Carl Boettiger <cboettig@gmail.com>’

The Description field contains
  <arXiv:1708.01242>.
Please refer to arXiv e-prints via their arXiv DOI <doi:10.48550/arXiv.YYMM.NNNNN>.

CRAN check page ↗

Slowest check: 2.5 min · r-devel-windows-x86_64

Status changes

NOTE11 OK, 2 NOTENow
NOTE12 OK, 2 NOTE2026-03-10

Advisories

none known

How this is measured·How advisories are found

Documentation

In release 0.2.4

READMEYes · 365 wordsVignettesNoNEWSYes · 100% structured · mentions 0.2.4Citation fileYes · cites a publication

Help pages: 4
Examples that run: 33%1 run in a plain check · 2 only when donttest examples are enabled (R CMD check --as-cran)
Exported functions with examples: 100%
Documented parameters: 89%
Return-value docs: 67%
Help pages citing references: 0%

How these are measured

Downloads

3K

CRAN downloads in the past year

Rank #11,906 · ~8/day · ~252/mo

Releases R versions

Daily download trend is not available in this view yet.

38030 days

91290 days

3K1 year

Compare downloads with other packages →

Also on367 r2u3 autocran

How downloads are counted

Repository

cboettig/econetgen ↗Account: cboettigFork of iskanderun/NetGen

10Stars

3Forks

0Open issues

0Open PRs

4Releases

133Commits

4Commit identities

License file reads as GPL-3.0 · 133 commits · Last activity 2023-08-26

Responsiveness

How these are sampled

PRs merged (all time): 90%
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed issues: 16
Median days to close, 50 most recently updated closed PRs: 0

Stars over time

2025-04-09 · 102026-07-07 · 10

How these are measured

PracticesBeta

11 development-tooling and community-health practices detected across 6 families in the upstream repository

Checks run against github.com/cboettig/econetgen on 2026-10-18.

Continuous integration (4)

GitHub ActionsR CMD check workflowTravis CI (config file)AppVeyor

The R CMD check workflow runs on Linux, macOS and Windows, and on R-devel

Docs source (3)

README.Rmdpkgdown

GitHub Pages site last deployed 2023-08-26

Coverage (1)

Coverage reporting (Codecov)

CRAN release process (1)

cran-comments.md

Show all practicesHide 2 practices

Research and citation (1)

Zenodo

Lint, format, editor (1)

RStudio project

How this is detected·Detection ruleset v3 (2026-09-26)

Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Installing EcoNetGen adds 20 packages (9 with compiled code, 19 MB of source tarballs). Heaviest: ggplot2 6.0 MB, igraph 4.8 MB, isoband 1.5 MB.

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

igraph ggplot2

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (4)

spelling testthat covr ggraph

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

0direct

0indirect

Nothing depends on this yet.

How these are counted

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Carl Boettiger

Author, Maintainer since 0.1.1 (2018)

Erica Newman

Author

Mathias Pires

Author

Marcus de Aguiar

Author, Copyright holder

NIMBioS

Funder

Releases (6)

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Package metadata

First published: 2018-04-10
Total releases: 6 / 8 yrs
License: GPL-3 OSI
Download size: 340 KB

Appears in task views

Network Analysis

Cite

Cite this package

Run in R for the authors' entry:

citation("EcoNetGen")

The package provides a citation file, so citation() returns the authors' own entry.

Cite the R Observatory

For a number measured here: a download total, a coverage figure, an archival date.

Format

APA

Balamuta, J. J. (2026). R Observatory: Metrics for EcoNetGen version 0.2.4 [Data set]. HJJB, LLC. Data release v2026-10-21. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21843040

From data release v2026-10-21, which the citation names so these numbers can be found later. More on citing and the projects behind them.

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